Reading .INI files is very easy with Python. Say you had a file,
"config.cfg", with this content:
[numbers]
one: 1
two: 2
The code to read that content is:
import configparser
conf = configparser.ConfigParser()
conf.read("config.cfg")
items = conf.items("numbers")
print(items)
Output:
[('one', '1'), ('two', '2')]
That's a list of tuples, each tuple a key-value pair.
Even better, since these are key-value pairs, why not use a more suitable data type? Here goes:
import configparser
conf = configparser.ConfigParser()
conf.read("config.cfg")
items = dict(conf.items("numbers"))
print(items)
Output:
{'two': '2', 'one': '1'}
That's the dict function, which takes a list of tuples, and converts them to a dictionary. You might also have noticed that the ordering is now a bit off. That's because the dict type doesn't care about ordering. Remember that in order to access dictionary content, you use a key and not an index:
>>> d = {1: 'one'}
>>> d[0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
KeyError: 0
>>> d[1]
'one'