Read all the contents in ini file into dictionary with Python

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Normally, I code as follows for getting a particular item in a variable as follows

try:
    config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
    config.read(self.iniPathName)
except ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError, e:
    raise WrongIniFormatError(`e`)

try:
    self.makeDB = config.get("DB","makeDB")
except ConfigParser.NoOptionError:
    self.makeDB = 0

Is there any way to read all the contents in a python dictionary?

For example

[A]
x=1
y=2
z=3
[B]
x=1
y=2
z=3

is written into 

val["A"]["x"] = 1
...
val["B"]["z"] = 3
ini configuration-files python
8 Answers

One more thing to take care is, ConfigParser converts the key values to lowercase hence in case you are converting the config entries to a dictionary cross check your requirements. I faced a problem because of this. For me I was having camel-case keys hence, had to change some amount of code when I started using the dictionary instead of files. ConfigParser.get() method internally converts the key to lower-case.

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suppose file: config.properties contains the following:

  • k =v
  • k2= v2
  • k3= v3

python code:

def read_config_file(file_path):
        with open(file=file_path, 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('file as dic: ', read_config_file('config.properties'))
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