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MRINMOY DEB
MRINMOY DEB

Reputation: 51

convert config file into dictionary using python

[section 1]
key1:value1
key2:value2

[section 2]
key1:value1
key2:value2

I have tried to parse this config file into dictionary using python but i was unable to do

This is my code:

import configparser
config = configparser.ConfigParser
filename = '/home/Documents/dictionary parsing/config.cfg'

def read_config_file(filename):
    with open(file=filename, mode='r') as fs:
        return{k.strip(): v.strip() for i in [l for l in fs.readlines() if l.strip() != ''] for k, v in [i.split('=')]}

print('dictionary: ',read_config_file(filename))

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3981

Answers (1)

Gam
Gam

Reputation: 322

This is the way:

import configparser
config = configparser.ConfigParser()
# The name of your file
config.read('example.ini')

dictionary = {}
for section in config.sections():
    dictionary[section] = {}
    for option in config.options(section):
        dictionary[section][option] = config.get(section, option)

print(dictionary)

The sections method return a list of all the sections in your config file, the options method returns all of the options for a section. Using the get method of the configparser library you can access all the section-option combo you have loaded from you config file and then place them in a dict with the same schema.

Upvotes: 3

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