[Tutor] configparser -- suggestions on when "name: value" entries are incomplete

[Iyer]

--- Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:

> Iyer wrote:
> > Regarding the configparser module, if there is a
> > configuration file to be read that has incomplete
> > "name: value" entries, what would be the best way
> to
> > handle this situation ?
> 
> Do you mean incomplete as in not syntactically
> correct? I would tell the 
> user to fix it.

yes, it is not syntactically correct - for one section
there are no corresponding names for the values; the
values show up in the config file. This config file is
actually generated by another program not under my
control and breaks my python script trying to read it.
 

> 
> If you mean missing some values, you could provide
> defaults.
> 
> > 
> > I was thinking of catching the exemption
> parsingerror
> > and deleting the sections that have incomplete
> > "name:value" entries, to delete the sections, the
> > configfile has to be read, right and that raises
> the
> > parsing error.
> > 
> > any suggestions on how to best handle this
> situation?
> 
> Don't accept garbage data.
> 
> Kent
> 



       
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