[Python-Dev] ConfigParser with a single section (original) (raw)

Gustavo Niemeyer niemeyer@conectiva.com
Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:22:46 -0200

A vote of -0 means I don't want to make a career out of this .

http://www.python.org/dev/process.html A -1 vote is a strong objection; I don't have a strong objection here, I see any support for anonymous sections in ConfigParser as complicating the whole thing for no particular benefit. OTOH, it won't be a disaster for Python if some version is accepted, either; I'd just rather it weren't. Or,

Thanks for explaining! I wasn't aware that there were a formal description for [01][+-] :-)

IOW, -0. That can't be changed unless someone presents a compelling use case for an anonymous section where making up a section name would be a believable burden.

The most compeling reason I could see is:

import ConfigParser cfg = ConfigParser.ConfigParser(singlesection="shell") cfg.read("/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo") cfg.get("shell", "ipaddr") '127.0.0.1'

Besides that, I'm ashamed to say that I'm acting more like a bug-closing monkey. ;-)

-- Gustavo Niemeyer

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