access abook addressbook with curses

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi Ben,

* Ben C <spamspam at spam.eggs> wrote:
> On 2006-08-06, Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> You can construct the parser with a dictionary of defaults:
>
>     config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser({"city" : "unknown",
>         "zip" : "unknown"})
>
> that kind of thing.
>
> Or catch the exceptions. Or use config.options("2") to see what options
> exist in section 2 before you try to read them.

Thanks! I will try it out!

Greetings!
 Fabian