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Hiikion
Hiikion

Reputation: 39

Parsing and converting non standart .ini files python

I am parsing an .ini file with python

import ini

def par():
    with open('file.ini', 'r') as f:
        contents = ini.parse(f.read())
    return contents

And when executing the code gives an error

File "file.py", line 40, in par
    contents = ini.parse(f.read())
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\ini\__init__.py", line 29, in parse        
    data[section][key] = value
KeyError: ''

It probably gives an error because of non standard stucture for an .ini file
example of the file stucture:

[title]
a::b = 1
f::g = 12

Is there a way to parse and convert dicts to such non standart .ini files?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 114

Answers (1)

Michael Ruth
Michael Ruth

Reputation: 3504

Use configparser and specify the key/value delimiters.

from configparser import ConfigParser
config = ConfigParser(delimiters=("=",))
config.read("file.ini")
print(config["title"]["a::b"])
print(config["title"]["f::g"])

1
12

ConfigParser uses = and : as delimiters by default. The : causes it to parse a::b = 1 as "a": ":b = 1". This is why you need to restrict the delimiters to = only.

Upvotes: 3

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