editing a config file

[Mathias Waack]

Mike Zupan wrote:

> I need to edit the value(s) of a config file via a GUI interface.
> I'm trying to use ConfigParser but set() doesn't seem to write.
> 
> Here are my reading and writing functions
> 
> def getConfig(self,value=None):
> config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
> config.readfp(open('config.inf'))
> return config.defaults()[value]
> 
> def setConfig(self, option, value):
> config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
> config.readfp(open('config.inf', 'a'))
> config.set("DEFAULT", option, value)
> 
> The values are getting passed ok it just won't set the value to the
> new value i have selected.
> 
> can anyone offer any hints?

Maybe you're simply missing a config.write('config.inf')?

Mathias