ConfigParser

[Larry Bates]

Sergey wrote:
> Is there an alternative to standard module ConfigParser, which can use 
> delimitier symbol other than ":" and "=", preferaby just space?
> I need to parse such configs:
> 
> [Passwords]
> 2:5020/758 xxxx
> 2:5020/794 yyyy
> 
> ConfigParser is not able to work with option names which contain symbol ':'
> It is not difficult to modify ConfigParser to resolve it, but may be another 
> solution already exists?
> 
> 
What you need is an option keyname in front of each password entry in
the [Passwords] section:  I do this quite a lot:

[Passwords]
password_001=2:5020/758 xxxx
password_002=2:5020/794 yyyy
.
.
.


You can then get a list of passwords from .INI like this:

INI=ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
INI.read(inifilename)
section="Passwords"
passwordentries=[p for p in INI.options(section) if p.startswith('password_')]
passwordentries.sort() # If you want to process them in order

or to get list of passwords

passwordlist=[INI.get(section, pk) for pk in passwordentries]

Larry Bates