ConfigParser is a Python module for reading and writing configuration files that have a structure similar to those of INI files in Microsoft Windows.
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get key basis on value by reading property file in python?
I have a property file "holder.txt" like this which is in key=value format. Here key is clientId and value is hostname.
p10=machineA.abc.host.com
p11=machineB.pqr.host.com
p12=machineC.abc.host.com
p13=machineD.abc.host.com
Now I want to read this…

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Configparser under Kivy
I have a problem deploying a Kivy application using configparser
import kivy
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import Screen
import configparser
class MainFrame(Screen):
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super(MainFrame,…

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Unable to set a value for an option in a section in .ini file using ConfigParser using Python
I want to update the value of a particular option in a section in '.ini' file. I found that 'set' function can be used. Below is the code that I used. Here, set method is throwing an error "No Section". I tried all upper case and lower case also for…

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ConfigParser breaking when section header itself has an ]
I am using the ConfigParser module like this:
from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
c = ConfigParser()
c.read("pymzq.ini")
However, the sections gets botched up like this:
>>> c.sections()
['pyzmq:platform.architecture()[0']
for the pymzq.ini file…

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Python - ConfigParser - .ini file too large?
This is my first question on stackoverflow and I have only been involved with python for a short time, but I have a problem with reading an .ini file and I cannot find the answer anywhere.
This is a small piece of my current code:
import…

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parsing registry text dumps into pandas
I have a registry text dump like below
[HKLM\CurrentControlSet\somerandomthing]
[HKLM\CurrentControlSet\somerandomthing\somerandomsub]
"key1"=hex(7)"1234aa\
123451234567788\
124123412341234
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Have Python's 'configparser' to treat lines under an ini section as (raw) lines?
Trying to make configparser treat lines under a section as raw text, and returning each line as items:
Example config/ini file:
[db]
sqlite:///testing.db
mysql:///user:pass@host/database
The code i've currently got:
config =…

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Python 2.7 import ConfigParser ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'
so lately i have a project to make a cryptocurrency trading bot using Python and then i stumble across Cointrader Library for Python, so i use that library for helping me build this project, the exchanger used here was Poloniex, so i added Poloniex…

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assign agrv[i] from lines in file using python
example input.dat
[settings]
port = 1234
host = abc.com
How can I parse the file, and assign
1234 to agrv[1],
abc.com to argv[2] and so on
here is what i tried:
$python p.py input.dat
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "p.py", line 8, in…

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Python ConfigParser from file
I try to load config from file with read
But when it reads from same folder it works
When I read from parent it doesn’t.
Code:
/
config.ini
Conf/
__init__.py
config.ini
Conf.py
// Conf.py
config = ConfigParser()
#this…

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No Section error of ConfigParser in Pyspark Cluster
I have a project in pyspark in with i implemented ConfigParser to load some settings from config.properties file.
On local it work fine and without any issue so far...
But on cluster it throws No section error.
I Crawl internet and found some…

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When (and why) has been `__name__` magic variable removed from `ConfigParser` interpolation?
In Python 2.7 ConfigParser.ConfigParser interpolates pattern %(__name__)s as name of the section.
In Python 3.6 (as well as 3.3) configparser.ConfigParser fails at the same interpolation with InterpolationMissingOptionError exception.
When has the…

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"Extended" template-based INI file parsing in Python
I need to parse (and feed to a database) configuration files like this one (actually it is Asterisk's sip.conf):
[client-template](!,natted-template)
foo=foovalue
moo=moovalue
[client](client-template)
bar=barvalue
This syntax means that…

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Best way to import a configuration file which contains multiple sets of multiline data in Python?
I'm trying to import a file that has multiple variables within it, each variable containing anywhere from 1 entry to about a hundred. so something like this:
[info]
name = Jon
number = 2
multiple_num =
5
2
4
65
78
45
I've formatted this as an .ini…
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python how to pass section name in config parser as variable
******testfile.ini file*******
**[TEST]**
val1=1
val2=3
**[TEST1]**
..
..
**[TEST2]**
..
..
**[TEST3]**
..
..
*****testprog.py****
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import ConfigParser
import os
section = sys.args[1]
parser =…

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