Utility functions and classes for configuration files.

Latest release 20210306: Fix imports from collections.abc.

Class ConfigSectionWatcher(collections.abc.Mapping,collections.abc.Collection,collections.abc.Sized,collections.abc.Iterable,collections.abc.Container)

A class for monitoring a particular clause in a config file.

Method ConfigSectionWatcher.__init__(self, config, section, defaults=None)

Initialise a ConfigSectionWatcher to monitor a particular section of a config file. config: path of config file, or ConfigWatcher section: the section to watch defaults: the defaults section to use, default 'DEFAULT'

Method ConfigSectionWatcher.__getitem__(self, key)

Mapping methods.

Method ConfigSectionWatcher.as_dict(self)

Return the config section as a dict.

Method ConfigSectionWatcher.keys(self)

Return the keys of the config section.

Property ConfigSectionWatcher.path

The pathname of the config file.

Class ConfigWatcher(collections.abc.Mapping,collections.abc.Collection,collections.abc.Sized,collections.abc.Iterable,collections.abc.Container)

A monitor for a windows style .ini file. The current SafeConfigParser object is presented as the .config property.

Method ConfigWatcher.__getitem__(self, *a, **kw)

Return the ConfigWatcher for the specified section.

Method ConfigWatcher.as_dict(self)

Construct and return a dictionary containing an entry for each section whose value is a dictionary of section items and values.

Property ConfigWatcher.config

Inner wrapper for func.

Property ConfigWatcher.path

The path to the config file.

Method ConfigWatcher.section_keys(self, section)

Return the field names for the specified section.

Method ConfigWatcher.section_value(self, section, key)

Return the value of [section]key.

Function load_config(config_path, parser=None)

Load a configuration from the named config_path.

If parser is missing or None, use SafeConfigParser (just ConfigParser in Python 3). Return the parser.

Release Log

Release 20210306: Fix imports from collections.abc.

Release 20190101: Internal changes.

Release 20160828: Update metadata with "install_requires" instead of "requires".

Release 20150118: Initial PyPI release.