How to read all words under a section in configparser?

Question

I'm reading from a file which has a section structured like this:

[name]
John
Mary
Ben
John

Note that there are no keys.

How to read those values with ConfigParser?

Thanks

May I ask why do you use an ini file for that and not a JSON or a YAML? — Or Y, Sep 22 '20 at 11:46
Does this answer your question? [Python configparser will not accept keys without values](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9491521/python-configparser-will-not-accept-keys-without-values) — Tomerikoo, Sep 22 '20 at 12:47

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 22 '20 at 12:28

You should create your ConfigParser with the keyword argument allow_no_value set to True. Also you need to remove the duplication in your file (John appears twice).

config = configparser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True)
config.read("config_file_name")

for name in config["name"]:
    print(name)

Output:

John
Mary
Ben

If you need the duplications in the name section, you will have to inherit the ConfigParser class and override that limitation.

Side note:

Consider using a JSON or YAML instead of an ini file for such task, it will make your life much easier

How to read all words under a section in configparser?

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Side note: