ConfigParser and multiple option names

[Alexis Roda]

Florian Lindner escribió:
> I think the best solution would be to use a seperation character:
> 
> dir="/home/florian, /home/john, home/whoever"

RCS uses , in filenames

> What do you think? Any better ideas?

A bit ugly, but probably safer and simpler than adding arbitrary separators:

[section]
dir_1=/home/florian
dir_2=/home/john
dir_3=/home/whoever


a s(a|i)mple implementation to give you the idea, it has some bugs:

import ConfigParser
import re

class ConfigParserWithLists(ConfigParser.ConfigParser):
    def setlist(self, section, option, value) :
        for i, v in enumerate(value) :
            self.set(section, '%s_%i' % (option, i + 1), v)

    def getlist(self, section, option) :
        res = []
        m = re.compile('^' + option + '_\d+$').match
        for oo in self.options(section) :
            if m(oo) :
                res.append(self.get(section, oo))
        return res




HTH