Python's ConfigParser
- From: BlueScale <bluescale1976@xxxxxxx>
- To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:12:00 -0400
Hi,
I wrote 2 functions in Python, one of them is to write settings to a
file, and the other is to read them. The read function works, the write
function doesn't though. Well, it sort of works, but if I try to add a
setting later, it overwrites the file with the last setting and erases
everything else. I tried setting the file object to append, and this
does work, but it creates multiple sections with the same name. Can
someone please tell me where I am going wrong? Here are both of the
functions:
def writeVar(fileName, sectionName, sectionKey, sectionValue):
import ConfigParser
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
try:
config.set(sectionName, sectionKey, sectionValue)
except:
config.add_section(sectionName)
config.set(sectionName, sectionKey, sectionValue)
with open(fileName, "wb") as configFile:
config.write(configFile)
configFile.close()
def getVar(fileName, sectionName, sectionKey):
import ConfigParser
import os
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
if os.path.exists(fileName) == True:
try:
config.read(fileName)
return config.get(sectionName, sectionKey)
except:
return ""
else:
return ""
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