Python Config Files with ConfigObj

ConfigObjDemo2

# Import the ConfigObj library 
from configobj import ConfigObj 

# Parse the configuration file using ConfigObj 
config = ConfigObj(filename) 

# The ConfigObj library parses the configuration file as a 
# python dictionary. Super Cool! 
# This means you can do things like this - 

print config['name'] 

# and it will return - example
# or do this 

print config['server']['value'] * config['server']['threads'] 

# To get a subsection you just follow the dictionary path. 
# data - 

print config['features'] 

# features 

print config['features']['polygons'] 

# Tons of fun

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# You can specify boolean values in your configuration 
# file with: True, 1, true or False, false, 0 

print config['bool']

# The parsing engine guesses what you input 
# This is good for a lot of things like the polygon features URL 
# It will assume the URL is a String element 

print config['features']['polygons'] 

# The parser will assume the list is an array of items

print config['list']

# The parser will assume intetger is an Integer element 

print config['integer]

# However it gets tricky, when the assumptions are wrong! 
# It assumes declare_list is a string, but we want to read it as an array!

print config['declare_list"]

# You can specify the data type to read.  In this case we want a list!

print config.as_list('declare_list')