access abook addressbook with curses

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi Ben,

* Ben C <spamspam at spam.eggs> wrote:
> On 2006-08-05, Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to get access to my abook address file with python.
>> Does anyone have some python lines to achive this using
>> curses? If not, maybe anybody has small python program doing
>> it with a gui!?
>
> You can just parse the abook addressbook with the ConfigParser, try
> this:
>
> import os
> from ConfigParser import *
>
> abook = ConfigParser()
> abook.read(os.environ["HOME"] + "/.abook/addressbook")
>
> for s in abook.sections():
>     print abook.items(s)

Thanks! I found a different example too:

import ConfigParser
import string

config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()

config.read("/home/fab/.abook/addressbook")

# print summary
print
for number in [2,200]:
    print string.upper(config.get(str(number), "email"))
    print string.upper(config.get(str(number), "name"))
    print string.upper(config.get(str(number), "city"))
    print string.upper(config.get(str(number), "address"))

but the problem seems to be that abook does not write every
field, so I get an exception when there is a field missing:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "configparser-example-1.py", line 13, in ?
    print string.upper(config.get(str(number), "city"))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 520, in get
    raise NoOptionError(option, section)
ConfigParser.NoOptionError: No option 'city' in section: '2'

Section 2 looks like:

[2]
name=Andrs Gzi
email=anes.oi at ik.e
nick=oz

Is there a workaround?


Greetings!
 Fabian