RE: Python's ConfigParser

Thanks!  It works like a charm now, just needed a simple if statement.
I'm actually quite proud of those two functions, now I don't have to
remember and do all of that ConfigParser stuff every time.
Just in case anyone is interested, here's the revised version of
writeVar:
def writeVar(fileName, sectionName, sectionKey, sectionValue):
 import ConfigParser
 import os
 config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
 if os.path.exists(fileName):
  config.read(fileName)
 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()




On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 11:12 -0400, Ken Perry wrote:
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> What you have to do is do a read config then do all the stuff you want
> and then do a write config which yes will over write the file but that
> wonʼt matter because you have the config that you read.  You can set
> anything you like in the config before you write it and it will have
> the old settings and the new.
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> So the way you would use it is like this
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> myConf=LoadConfig()
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> #do stuff
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> saveConfig(myConf)
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> Ken
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> From:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of BlueScale
> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 4:12 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Python's ConfigParser
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> 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()
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> 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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>

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