More examples Multiple values in test.cfg
.
[test]
foo = value1
foo = value2
value3
xxx = yyy
<whitespace>value3
append value3
to foo list.
ConfigParser
converts the list to a string.
/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.pyc in _read(self, fp, fpname)
552 for name, val in options.items():
553 if isinstance(val, list):
--> 554 options[name] = '\n'.join(val)
555
value
before converting is always list or dict (MultiOrderedDict
).
Try this - with it, config.items
works:
from collections import OrderedDict
import ConfigParser
class MultiOrderedDict(OrderedDict):
def __setitem__(self, key, value):
if key in self:
if isinstance(value, list):
self[key].extend(value)
return
elif isinstance(value,str):
return # ignore conversion list to string (line 554)
super(MultiOrderedDict, self).__setitem__(key, value)
config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser(dict_type=MultiOrderedDict)
config.read(['test.cfg'])
print config.get("test", "foo")
print config.get("test", "xxx")
print config.items("test")
Outputs:
['value1', 'value2', 'value3']
['yyy']
[('foo', ['value1', 'value2', 'value3']), ('xxx', ['yyy'])]
Another implementation MultiOrderedDict
class MultiOrderedDict(OrderedDict):
def __setitem__(self, key, value):
if key in self:
if isinstance(value, list):
self[key].extend(value)
return
elif isinstance(value,str):
if len(self[key])>1:
return
super(MultiOrderedDict, self).__setitem__(key, value)
Outputs:
['value1', 'value2', 'value3']
yyy
[('foo', ['value1', 'value2', 'value3']), ('xxx', 'yyy')]