ConfigParser shootout, preliminary entry

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:27:53 -0500, Paramjit Oberoi <param at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> > Since then I've been playing around with this... not the parsing part (which
> > so far I have completely ignored) but the programmer interface. There needs
> > to be a well-thought-out data model for the information stored, and the user
> > interface needs to be very easy to use, yet not so "magical" that it becomes
> > difficult to understand.
> 
> >From the me-too department:
> 
> For me personally, the problems with ConfigParser were inconvenient value
> access/update and lack of order-preservation by the INI parser/writer.  I
> have developed my own solution which:
> 
> * Is convenient: both attribute access as well as container syntax can be
> used to access as well as update values:
> 
>    from cfgparse.iniparser import ini_namespace
>    conf = ini_namespace()
>    conf.user.name = 'Oberoi'
>    print conf['user']['name']
>    'Oberoi'
> 
> * Preserves order/indentation/spacing when the INI file is updated and
> when the data is accessed.
> 
> * I have given some thought to the data model and interface question, but
> probably not as much as you.  The data model simply is that of arbitrarily
> nested namespaces, each containing values (although each specific
> implementation of the model can have it's own restrictions - for example,
> INI files don't allow top-level values).  The abstract model/interface
> allos conversion from one config format to another.
> 
> * I have some code written using the ConfigParser API which I didn't want
> to have to update, so an API-compatible interface is also available which
> implements the old interface, as well as allowing access to the new one.
> 
> The code can be found here:
> 
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~param/software/cfgparse/
> 
> -param
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