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File Formats</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body" role="main"> <div class="section" id="module-ConfigParser"> <span id="configparser-configuration-file-parser"></span><h1>13.2. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser: Configuration file parser."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a> — Configuration file parser<a class="headerlink" href="#module-ConfigParser" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> <p class="last">The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser: Configuration file parser."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a> module has been renamed to <code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">configparser</span></code> in Python 3. The <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-2to3"><span class="xref std std-term">2to3</span></a> tool will automatically adapt imports when converting your sources to Python 3.</p> </div> <p id="index-0">This module defines the class <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a>. The <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a> class implements a basic configuration file parser language which provides a structure similar to what you would find on Microsoft Windows INI files. You can use this to write Python programs which can be customized by end users easily.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> <p class="last">This library does <em>not</em> interpret or write the value-type prefixes used in the Windows Registry extended version of INI syntax.</p> </div> <div class="admonition seealso"> <p class="first admonition-title">See also</p> <dl class="last docutils"> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="shlex.html#module-shlex" title="shlex: Simple lexical analysis for Unix shell-like languages."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shlex</span></code></a></dt> <dd>Support for creating Unix shell-like mini-languages which can be used as an alternate format for application configuration files.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="json.html#module-json" title="json: Encode and decode the JSON format."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">json</span></code></a></dt> <dd>The json module implements a subset of JavaScript syntax which can also be used for this purpose.</dd> </dl> </div> <p>The configuration file consists of sections, led by a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">[section]</span></code> header and followed by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">name:</span> <span class="pre">value</span></code> entries, with continuations in the style of <span class="target" id="index-1"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822.html"><strong>RFC 822</strong></a> (see section 3.1.1, “LONG HEADER FIELDS”); <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">name=value</span></code> is also accepted. Note that leading whitespace is removed from values. The optional values can contain format strings which refer to other values in the same section, or values in a special <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DEFAULT</span></code> section. Additional defaults can be provided on initialization and retrieval. Lines beginning with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'#'</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">';'</span></code> are ignored and may be used to provide comments.</p> <p>Configuration files may include comments, prefixed by specific characters (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">#</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">;</span></code>). Comments may appear on their own in an otherwise empty line, or may be entered in lines holding values or section names. In the latter case, they need to be preceded by a whitespace character to be recognized as a comment. (For backwards compatibility, only <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">;</span></code> starts an inline comment, while <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">#</span></code> does not.)</p> <p>On top of the core functionality, <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SafeConfigParser</span></code></a> supports interpolation. This means values can contain format strings which refer to other values in the same section, or values in a special <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DEFAULT</span></code> section. Additional defaults can be provided on initialization.</p> <p>For example:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">My</span> <span class="n">Section</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="n">foodir</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">dir</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="n">s</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">whatever</span> <span class="nb">dir</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">frob</span> <span class="n">long</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">this</span> <span class="n">value</span> <span class="n">continues</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="nb">next</span> <span class="n">line</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>would resolve the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%(dir)s</span></code> to the value of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dir</span></code> (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">frob</span></code> in this case). All reference expansions are done on demand.</p> <p>Default values can be specified by passing them into the <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a> constructor as a dictionary. Additional defaults may be passed into the <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get()</span></code> method which will override all others.</p> <p>Sections are normally stored in a built-in dictionary. An alternative dictionary type can be passed to the <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a> constructor. For example, if a dictionary type is passed that sorts its keys, the sections will be sorted on write-back, as will be the keys within each section.</p> <dl class="class"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser"> <em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">RawConfigParser</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em>defaults</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>dict_type</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>allow_no_value</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>The basic configuration object. When <em>defaults</em> is given, it is initialized into the dictionary of intrinsic defaults. When <em>dict_type</em> is given, it will be used to create the dictionary objects for the list of sections, for the options within a section, and for the default values. When <em>allow_no_value</em> is true (default: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code>), options without values are accepted; the value presented for these is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p> <p>This class does not support the magical interpolation behavior.</p> <p>All option names are passed through the <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.optionxform" title="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.optionxform"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">optionxform()</span></code></a> method. Its default implementation converts option names to lower case.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.3.</span></p> </div> <div class="versionchanged"> <p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.6: </span><em>dict_type</em> was added.</p> </div> <div class="versionchanged"> <p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.7: </span>The default <em>dict_type</em> is <a class="reference internal" href="collections.html#collections.OrderedDict" title="collections.OrderedDict"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">collections.OrderedDict</span></code></a>. <em>allow_no_value</em> was added.</p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="class"> <dt id="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"> <em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">ConfigParser</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em>defaults</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>dict_type</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>allow_no_value</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Derived class of <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">RawConfigParser</span></code></a> that implements the magical interpolation feature and adds optional arguments to the <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser.get" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser.get"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser.items" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser.items"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">items()</span></code></a> methods. The values in <em>defaults</em> must be appropriate for the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%()s</span></code> string interpolation. Note that <em>__name__</em> is an intrinsic default; its value is the section name, and will override any value provided in <em>defaults</em>.</p> <p>All option names used in interpolation will be passed through the <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">optionxform()</span></code> method just like any other option name reference. Using the default implementation of <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">optionxform()</span></code>, the values <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">foo</span> <span class="pre">%(bar)s</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">foo</span> <span class="pre">%(BAR)s</span></code> are equivalent.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.3.</span></p> </div> <div class="versionchanged"> <p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.6: </span><em>dict_type</em> was added.</p> </div> <div class="versionchanged"> <p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.7: </span>The default <em>dict_type</em> is <a class="reference internal" href="collections.html#collections.OrderedDict" title="collections.OrderedDict"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">collections.OrderedDict</span></code></a>. <em>allow_no_value</em> was added.</p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="class"> <dt id="ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser"> <em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">SafeConfigParser</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em>defaults</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>dict_type</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>allow_no_value</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Derived class of <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a> that implements a more-sane variant of the magical interpolation feature. This implementation is more predictable as well. New applications should prefer this version if they don’t need to be compatible with older versions of Python.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.3.</span></p> </div> <div class="versionchanged"> <p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.6: </span><em>dict_type</em> was added.</p> </div> <div class="versionchanged"> <p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.7: </span>The default <em>dict_type</em> is <a class="reference internal" href="collections.html#collections.OrderedDict" title="collections.OrderedDict"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">collections.OrderedDict</span></code></a>. <em>allow_no_value</em> was added.</p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="ConfigParser.Error"> <em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">Error</code><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.Error" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Base class for all other configparser exceptions.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="ConfigParser.NoSectionError"> <em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">NoSectionError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.NoSectionError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Exception raised when a specified section is not found.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="ConfigParser.DuplicateSectionError"> <em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">DuplicateSectionError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.DuplicateSectionError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Exception raised if <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">add_section()</span></code> is called with the name of a section that is already present.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="ConfigParser.NoOptionError"> <em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">NoOptionError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.NoOptionError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Exception raised when a specified option is not found in the specified section.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="ConfigParser.InterpolationError"> <em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">InterpolationError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.InterpolationError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Base class for exceptions raised when problems occur performing string interpolation.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="ConfigParser.InterpolationDepthError"> <em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">InterpolationDepthError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.InterpolationDepthError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Exception raised when string interpolation cannot be completed because the number of iterations exceeds <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.MAX_INTERPOLATION_DEPTH" title="ConfigParser.MAX_INTERPOLATION_DEPTH"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MAX_INTERPOLATION_DEPTH</span></code></a>. Subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.InterpolationError" title="ConfigParser.InterpolationError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">InterpolationError</span></code></a>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="ConfigParser.InterpolationMissingOptionError"> <em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">InterpolationMissingOptionError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.InterpolationMissingOptionError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Exception raised when an option referenced from a value does not exist. Subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.InterpolationError" title="ConfigParser.InterpolationError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">InterpolationError</span></code></a>.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.3.</span></p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="ConfigParser.InterpolationSyntaxError"> <em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">InterpolationSyntaxError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.InterpolationSyntaxError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Exception raised when the source text into which substitutions are made does not conform to the required syntax. Subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.InterpolationError" title="ConfigParser.InterpolationError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">InterpolationError</span></code></a>.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.3.</span></p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError"> <em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">MissingSectionHeaderError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Exception raised when attempting to parse a file which has no section headers.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="ConfigParser.ParsingError"> <em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">ParsingError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.ParsingError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Exception raised when errors occur attempting to parse a file.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="data"> <dt id="ConfigParser.MAX_INTERPOLATION_DEPTH"> <code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">MAX_INTERPOLATION_DEPTH</code><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.MAX_INTERPOLATION_DEPTH" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>The maximum depth for recursive interpolation for <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get()</span></code> when the <em>raw</em> parameter is false. This is relevant only for the <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a> class.</p> </dd></dl> <div class="admonition seealso"> <p class="first admonition-title">See also</p> <dl class="last docutils"> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="shlex.html#module-shlex" title="shlex: Simple lexical analysis for Unix shell-like languages."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shlex</span></code></a></dt> <dd>Support for a creating Unix shell-like mini-languages which can be used as an alternate format for application configuration files.</dd> </dl> </div> <div class="section" id="rawconfigparser-objects"> <span id="id1"></span><h2>13.2.1. RawConfigParser Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#rawconfigparser-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p><a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">RawConfigParser</span></code></a> instances have the following methods:</p> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.defaults"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">defaults</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.defaults" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a dictionary containing the instance-wide defaults.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.sections"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">sections</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.sections" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a list of the sections available; <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DEFAULT</span></code> is not included in the list.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.add_section"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">add_section</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.add_section" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Add a section named <em>section</em> to the instance. If a section by the given name already exists, <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.DuplicateSectionError" title="ConfigParser.DuplicateSectionError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DuplicateSectionError</span></code></a> is raised. If the name <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DEFAULT</span></code> (or any of it’s case-insensitive variants) is passed, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.ValueError" title="exceptions.ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is raised.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.has_section"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">has_section</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.has_section" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Indicates whether the named section is present in the configuration. The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DEFAULT</span></code> section is not acknowledged.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.options"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">options</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.options" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Returns a list of options available in the specified <em>section</em>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.has_option"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">has_option</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em>, <em>option</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.has_option" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>If the given section exists, and contains the given option, return <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#True" title="True"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code></a>; otherwise return <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#False" title="False"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code></a>.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 1.6.</span></p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.read"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">read</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>filenames</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.read" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Attempt to read and parse a list of filenames, returning a list of filenames which were successfully parsed. If <em>filenames</em> is a string or Unicode string, it is treated as a single filename. If a file named in <em>filenames</em> cannot be opened, that file will be ignored. This is designed so that you can specify a list of potential configuration file locations (for example, the current directory, the user’s home directory, and some system-wide directory), and all existing configuration files in the list will be read. If none of the named files exist, the <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a> instance will contain an empty dataset. An application which requires initial values to be loaded from a file should load the required file or files using <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.readfp" title="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.readfp"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">readfp()</span></code></a> before calling <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.read" title="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.read"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">read()</span></code></a> for any optional files:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">ConfigParser</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="nn">os</span> <span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ConfigParser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ConfigParser</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">readfp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'defaults.cfg'</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="s1">'site.cfg'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">expanduser</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'~/.myapp.cfg'</span><span class="p">)])</span> </pre></div> </div> <div class="versionchanged"> <p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.4: </span>Returns list of successfully parsed filenames.</p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.readfp"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">readfp</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>fp</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>filename</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.readfp" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Read and parse configuration data from the file or file-like object in <em>fp</em> (only the <a class="reference internal" href="readline.html#module-readline" title="readline: GNU readline support for Python. (Unix)"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">readline()</span></code></a> method is used). If <em>filename</em> is omitted and <em>fp</em> has a <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">name</span></code> attribute, that is used for <em>filename</em>; the default is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre"><???></span></code>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.get"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">get</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em>, <em>option</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.get" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Get an <em>option</em> value for the named <em>section</em>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.getint"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">getint</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em>, <em>option</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.getint" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>A convenience method which coerces the <em>option</em> in the specified <em>section</em> to an integer.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.getfloat"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">getfloat</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em>, <em>option</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.getfloat" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>A convenience method which coerces the <em>option</em> in the specified <em>section</em> to a floating point number.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.getboolean"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">getboolean</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em>, <em>option</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.getboolean" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>A convenience method which coerces the <em>option</em> in the specified <em>section</em> to a Boolean value. Note that the accepted values for the option are <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"1"</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"yes"</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"true"</span></code>, and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"on"</span></code>, which cause this method to return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code>, and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"0"</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"no"</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"false"</span></code>, and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"off"</span></code>, which cause it to return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code>. These string values are checked in a case-insensitive manner. Any other value will cause it to raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.ValueError" title="exceptions.ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.items"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">items</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.items" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a list of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(name,</span> <span class="pre">value)</span></code> pairs for each option in the given <em>section</em>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.set"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">set</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em>, <em>option</em>, <em>value</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.set" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>If the given section exists, set the given option to the specified value; otherwise raise <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.NoSectionError" title="ConfigParser.NoSectionError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NoSectionError</span></code></a>. While it is possible to use <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">RawConfigParser</span></code></a> (or <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a> with <em>raw</em> parameters set to true) for <em>internal</em> storage of non-string values, full functionality (including interpolation and output to files) can only be achieved using string values.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 1.6.</span></p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.write"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">write</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>fileobject</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.write" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Write a representation of the configuration to the specified file object. This representation can be parsed by a future <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.read" title="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.read"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">read()</span></code></a> call.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 1.6.</span></p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.remove_option"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">remove_option</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em>, <em>option</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.remove_option" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Remove the specified <em>option</em> from the specified <em>section</em>. If the section does not exist, raise <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.NoSectionError" title="ConfigParser.NoSectionError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NoSectionError</span></code></a>. If the option existed to be removed, return <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#True" title="True"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code></a>; otherwise return <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#False" title="False"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code></a>.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 1.6.</span></p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.remove_section"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">remove_section</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.remove_section" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Remove the specified <em>section</em> from the configuration. If the section in fact existed, return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code>. Otherwise return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.optionxform"> <code class="descclassname">RawConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">optionxform</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>option</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.optionxform" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Transforms the option name <em>option</em> as found in an input file or as passed in by client code to the form that should be used in the internal structures. The default implementation returns a lower-case version of <em>option</em>; subclasses may override this or client code can set an attribute of this name on instances to affect this behavior.</p> <p>You don’t necessarily need to subclass a ConfigParser to use this method, you can also re-set it on an instance, to a function that takes a string argument. Setting it to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code>, for example, would make option names case sensitive:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">cfgparser</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ConfigParser</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="o">...</span> <span class="n">cfgparser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">optionxform</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">str</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>Note that when reading configuration files, whitespace around the option names are stripped before <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.optionxform" title="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.optionxform"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">optionxform()</span></code></a> is called.</p> </dd></dl> </div> <div class="section" id="configparser-objects"> <span id="id2"></span><h2>13.2.2. ConfigParser Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#configparser-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a> class extends some methods of the <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.RawConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">RawConfigParser</span></code></a> interface, adding some optional arguments.</p> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.ConfigParser.get"> <code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">get</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em>, <em>option</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>raw</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>vars</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser.get" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Get an <em>option</em> value for the named <em>section</em>. If <em>vars</em> is provided, it must be a dictionary. The <em>option</em> is looked up in <em>vars</em> (if provided), <em>section</em>, and in <em>defaults</em> in that order.</p> <p>All the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'%'</span></code> interpolations are expanded in the return values, unless the <em>raw</em> argument is true. Values for interpolation keys are looked up in the same manner as the option.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.ConfigParser.items"> <code class="descclassname">ConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">items</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>raw</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>vars</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser.items" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a list of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(name,</span> <span class="pre">value)</span></code> pairs for each option in the given <em>section</em>. Optional arguments have the same meaning as for the <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser.get" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser.get"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get()</span></code></a> method.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.3.</span></p> </div> </dd></dl> </div> <div class="section" id="safeconfigparser-objects"> <span id="id3"></span><h2>13.2.3. SafeConfigParser Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#safeconfigparser-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SafeConfigParser</span></code></a> class implements the same extended interface as <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a>, with the following addition:</p> <dl class="method"> <dt id="ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser.set"> <code class="descclassname">SafeConfigParser.</code><code class="descname">set</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>section</em>, <em>option</em>, <em>value</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser.set" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>If the given section exists, set the given option to the specified value; otherwise raise <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.NoSectionError" title="ConfigParser.NoSectionError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NoSectionError</span></code></a>. <em>value</em> must be a string (<a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#unicode" title="unicode"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unicode</span></code></a>); if not, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.TypeError" title="exceptions.TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> is raised.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.4.</span></p> </div> </dd></dl> </div> <div class="section" id="examples"> <h2>13.2.4. Examples<a class="headerlink" href="#examples" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>An example of writing to a configuration file:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">ConfigParser</span> <span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ConfigParser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">RawConfigParser</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="c1"># When adding sections or items, add them in the reverse order of</span> <span class="c1"># how you want them to be displayed in the actual file.</span> <span class="c1"># In addition, please note that using RawConfigParser's and the raw</span> <span class="c1"># mode of ConfigParser's respective set functions, you can assign</span> <span class="c1"># non-string values to keys internally, but will receive an error</span> <span class="c1"># when attempting to write to a file or when you get it in non-raw</span> <span class="c1"># mode. SafeConfigParser does not allow such assignments to take place.</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_section</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">set</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'an_int'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'15'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">set</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'a_bool'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'true'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">set</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'a_float'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'3.1415'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">set</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'baz'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'fun'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">set</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'bar'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'Python'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">set</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'foo'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'</span><span class="si">%(bar)s</span><span class="s1"> is </span><span class="si">%(baz)s</span><span class="s1">!'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># Writing our configuration file to 'example.cfg'</span> <span class="k">with</span> <span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'example.cfg'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'wb'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">configfile</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">write</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">configfile</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>An example of reading the configuration file again:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">ConfigParser</span> <span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ConfigParser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">RawConfigParser</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'example.cfg'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># getfloat() raises an exception if the value is not a float</span> <span class="c1"># getint() and getboolean() also do this for their respective types</span> <span class="n">a_float</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getfloat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'a_float'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">an_int</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'an_int'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="nb">print</span> <span class="n">a_float</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">an_int</span> <span class="c1"># Notice that the next output does not interpolate '%(bar)s' or '%(baz)s'.</span> <span class="c1"># This is because we are using a RawConfigParser().</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getboolean</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'a_bool'</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="nb">print</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'foo'</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>To get interpolation, you will need to use a <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.ConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser" title="ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SafeConfigParser</span></code></a>:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">ConfigParser</span> <span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ConfigParser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ConfigParser</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'example.cfg'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># Set the third, optional argument of get to 1 if you wish to use raw mode.</span> <span class="nb">print</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'foo'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># -> "Python is fun!"</span> <span class="nb">print</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'foo'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># -> "%(bar)s is %(baz)s!"</span> <span class="c1"># The optional fourth argument is a dict with members that will take</span> <span class="c1"># precedence in interpolation.</span> <span class="nb">print</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'foo'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="s1">'bar'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'Documentation'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'baz'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'evil'</span><span class="p">})</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>Defaults are available in all three types of ConfigParsers. They are used in interpolation if an option used is not defined elsewhere.</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">ConfigParser</span> <span class="c1"># New instance with 'bar' and 'baz' defaulting to 'Life' and 'hard' each</span> <span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ConfigParser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SafeConfigParser</span><span class="p">({</span><span class="s1">'bar'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'Life'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'baz'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">'hard'</span><span class="p">})</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'example.cfg'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="nb">print</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'foo'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># -> "Python is fun!"</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">remove_option</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'bar'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">remove_option</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'baz'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="nb">print</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Section1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'foo'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># -> "Life is hard!"</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>The function <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">opt_move</span></code> below can be used to move options between sections:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">opt_move</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">config</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">section1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">section2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">option</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">set</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">section2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">option</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">section1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">option</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="k">except</span> <span class="n">ConfigParser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">NoSectionError</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="c1"># Create non-existent section</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_section</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">section2</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">opt_move</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">config</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">section1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">section2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">option</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">remove_option</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">section1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">option</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>Some configuration files are known to include settings without values, but which otherwise conform to the syntax supported by <a class="reference internal" href="#module-ConfigParser" title="ConfigParser: Configuration file parser."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code></a>. The <em>allow_no_value</em> parameter to the constructor can be used to indicate that such values should be accepted:</p> <div class="highlight-pycon notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">ConfigParser</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">io</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">sample_config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"""</span> <span class="gp">... </span><span class="s2">[mysqld]</span> <span class="gp">... </span><span class="s2">user = mysql</span> <span class="gp">... </span><span class="s2">pid-file = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid</span> <span class="gp">... </span><span class="s2">skip-external-locking</span> <span class="gp">... </span><span class="s2">old_passwords = 1</span> <span class="gp">... </span><span class="s2">skip-bdb</span> <span class="gp">... </span><span class="s2">skip-innodb</span> <span class="gp">... </span><span class="s2">"""</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ConfigParser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">RawConfigParser</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">allow_no_value</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">readfp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">BytesIO</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sample_config</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># Settings with values are treated as before:</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"mysqld"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"user"</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="go">'mysql'</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># Settings without values provide None:</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"mysqld"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"skip-bdb"</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># Settings which aren't specified still raise an error:</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"mysqld"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"does-not-exist"</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="gt">Traceback (most recent call last):</span> <span class="c">...</span> <span class="gr">ConfigParser.NoOptionError</span>: <span class="n">No option 'does-not-exist' in section: 'mysqld'</span> </pre></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h3><a href="../contents.html">Table Of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">13.2. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ConfigParser</span></code> — Configuration file parser</a><ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#rawconfigparser-objects">13.2.1. 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