using configparser in python

Question

Sorry, I am a newbie in Python and trying to work on the ConfigParser module. Here is one script which is used to read multiple sections and values from a .ini file and print them as below (Current output). Now, I would like to store each of these values of url, password into variables and use each of them to run REST call using a for loop.

What changes are required to store value of each "url" and "password" into different variables?

# cat file.ini [bugs] url = http://localhost:1010/bugs/ username = mark password = SECRET [wiki] url = http://localhost:1010/wiki/ username = chris password = PWD

Script :-

from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser parser = SafeConfigParser() parser.read('file.ini') for element in parser.sections(): print 'Section:', element print ' Options:', parser.options(element) for name, value in parser.items(element): print ' %s = %s' % (name, value) print

Current output :-

~]# python parse.py Section: wiki Options: ['url', 'username', 'password'] url = http://localhost:1010/wiki/ username = chris password = PWD Section: bugs Options: ['url', 'username', 'password'] url = http://localhost:1010/bugs/ username = mark password = SECRET

Vikas Ojha · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-17 08:07:07Z

# The format is parser.get(section, tag) bugs_url = parser.get('bugs', 'url') bugs_username = parser.get('bugs', 'username') bugs_password = parser.get('bugs', 'password') wiki_url = parser.get('wiki', 'url') wiki_username = parser.get('wiki', 'username') wiki_password = parser.get('wiki', 'password')

Thanks Vikas.. But I would like to store each value to the same variable (for example, store value of password to a single variable "password" from both sections and also irrespective of number sections mentioned in the .ini file (i.e not specifying the name of the section explicitly).

damn_c · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-17 08:08:53Z

from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser parser = SafeConfigParser() parser.read('file.ini') config_dict = {} for element in parser.sections(): print 'Section:', element config_dict[element] = {} print ' Options:', parser.options(element) for name, value in parser.items(element): print ' %s = %s' % (name, value) config_dict[element][name] = value print config_dict

Sorry to ask, how do I print the value of name "password" which is repeated twice in "config_dict"

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