Python configobj
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Configobj is a python module that read/writes an improved .ini file format (which supports nesting).
WARNING:
configobj is deprecated in favour of python configparser
Documentation
official docs https://configobj.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ github https://github.com/DiffSK/configobj
Format
## comments are allowed [A] test = 'S' [[A1]] test = 'St' [[[A2]]] test = 'Stuff' ## inline comments are allowed test2 = 'Stuff2' test3 = 'a','b','c' ## lists are supported! test4 = , ## empty list! ['B'] test = 'B'
WARNING:
configobj does not support multiline lists
Read
#### Read from file from configobj import ConfigObj cfg = ConfigObj( 'myfile.ini') ## read from file#### Read from string from configobj import ConfigObj from io import StringIO string = ( "[heading]\n" "key = 'value'" "otherkey = 'othervalue'" ) fake_file = StringIO( fake_file ) ConfigObj( fake_file )
Write
from configobj import ConfigObj cfg = ConfigObj('somefile.ini') cfg['key'] = 123 cfg['newkey'] = 456 cfg.write()