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Jake
Jake

Reputation: 240

Python equivalent to PHPs parse_ini_string

I'm currently porting a PHP script to Python to learn Python. But currently I'm stuck, because I'm calling an API which always returns an ini-formatted answer something like this:

error=0
---
asin=
name=Haftnotizen
detailname=info flags Haftnotizen
vendor=GlobalNotes
maincat=Haushalt, Büro
---

I've already learnt that I can use ConfigParser to parse ini-files. But in this case, the ini-answer has no headings (which wouldn't be a problem with this solution) and also has these --- separators.

My code right now is:

import configparser

with open('test.ini', 'r') as f:
    config_string = '[dummy_section]\n' + f.read()
config = configparser.ConfigParser()
config.read_string(config_string)

but unfortunately it's throwing the following error message at me:

configparser.ParsingError: Source contains parsing errors: '<string>'
        [line  3]: '---\n'
        [line  9]: '---'

How can I ignore those lines? (Also, they're not always in the same line)

I don't know what to do next, any help would be much appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 129

Answers (1)

Cresht
Cresht

Reputation: 1040

It's not pretty, but if the error string is always exactly the same you can just remove that substring from the data. You would do that with this:

config_string = config_string.replace("---", "")

Upvotes: 1

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