reading a config file

[Larry Bates]

When I need something like this I have employed the following:

[server_001]
blah = "some server"
destination="some destination"

[server_002]
blah = "some other server"
destination="some other destination"

[server_linux1]
blah = "some other server"
destination="some other destination"


Then I do something like this:

import ConfigParser
INI=ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
INI.read(inifilename)
serversections=[x for x in INI.sections if x.startswith('server_')]
for serversection in serversections:
    servername=serversection.split('_')[1]
    #
    # Code to operate on the servers here
    #



Larry Bates


s99999999s2003 at yahoo.com wrote:
> hi
> i used ConfigParser to read a config file. I need the config file to
> have identical sections. ie :
> 
> [server]
> blah = "some server"
> [destination]
> blah = "some destination"
> [end]
> end= ''
> 
> [server]
> blah = "some other server"
> [destination]
> blah = "some other destination"
> [end]
> end=''
> 
> and i need to check that every 'server' and 'destination' is followed
> by 'end'
> 
> if i used the 'sections' method, it always show 'server' and
> 'destination' and 'end'. how can i iterate all the sections. ie..
> 
> for s in cfg.sections():
>   do something...
> 
> or is naming all the sections with different names is a better option?
> thanks
>