Question

I have a very tricky situation (for my standards) in hand. I have a script that needs to read a script variable name from ConfigParser. For example, I need to read

self.post.id 

from a .cfg file and use it as a variable in the script. How do I achieve this?

I suppose I was unclear in my query. The .cfg file looks something like:

[head] test: me some variable : self.post.id 

This self.post.id is to be replaced at the run time, taking values from the script.

Answer 1

test.ini:

[head] var: self.post.id 

python:

import ConfigParser  class Test:   def __init__(self):       self.post = TestPost(5)   def getPost(self):       config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()       config.read('/path/to/test.ini')       newvar = config.get('head', 'var')       print eval(newvar)   class TestPost:   def __init__(self, id):       self.id = id  test = Test() test.getPost()   # prints 5