Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:55:14 +0200
Added a config parser class to implement the dictionary interface for the Python 2 config parser.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # Copyright (c) 2016 Detlev Offenbach <detlev@die-offenbachs.de> # """ Module implementing a ConfigParser wrapper for Python 2 to provide the dictionary like interface of the Python 3 variant. """ from __future__ import unicode_literals try: from configparser import ConfigParser as E5ConfigParser except ImportError: # Py2 part with the compatibility wrapper class import itertools from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser, DEFAULTSECT class E5ConfigParser(SafeConfigParser): """ Class implementing a wrapper of the ConfigParser class implementing dictionary like special methods. """ def __getitem__(self, key): """ Special method to get a section. @param key name of the section @type str @return section for the given key @rtype dict @exception KeyError raised if a non-existent key is given """ if key == DEFAULTSECT: return self._defaults elif self.has_section(key): return self._sections[key] else: raise KeyError(key) def __setitem__(self, key, values): """ Special method to set the values of a section. @param key name of the section @type str @param values value for the section @type dict """ # To conform with the mapping protocol, overwrites existing values # in the section. if key == DEFAULTSECT: self._defaults.clear() elif self.has_section(key): self._sections[key].clear() else: self.add_section(key) for subkey, value in values.items(): subkey = self.optionxform(str(subkey)) if value is not None: value = str(value) self.set(key, subkey, value) def __delitem__(self, key): """ Special method to delete a section. @param key name of the section @type str @exception ValueError raised to indicate non-removal of the default section @exception KeyError raised to indicate a non-existent section """ if key == DEFAULTSECT: raise ValueError("Cannot remove the default section.") if not self.has_section(key): raise KeyError(key) self.remove_section(key) def __contains__(self, key): """ Special method to test, if a section is contained in the config. @param key name of the section @type str @return flag indicating containment @rtype bool """ return key == DEFAULTSECT or self.has_section(key) def __len__(self): """ Special method get the number of sections of the config. @return number of sections @rtype int """ return len(self._sections) + 1 # the default section def __iter__(self): """ Special method to return an iterator of the section names starting with the default section. @return iterator of the section names contained in the config @rtype iterator of str """ return itertools.chain((DEFAULTSECT,), self._sections.keys()) if __name__ == "__main__": # This is some test code. import sys c = E5ConfigParser() c["DEFAULT"] = {'ServerAliveInterval': '45', 'Compression': 'yes', 'CompressionLevel': '9'} c['bitbucket.org'] = {} c['bitbucket.org']['User'] = 'hg' c['topsecret.server.com'] = {} topsecret = c['topsecret.server.com'] topsecret['Port'] = '50022' topsecret['ForwardX11'] = 'no' c['DEFAULT']['ForwardX11'] = 'yes' c.write(sys.stdout)