Question

Simple question. It is possible to make configobj to not put a space before and after the ‘=’ in a configuration entry ?

I’m using configobj to read and write a file that is later processed by a bash script, so putting an antry like:

VARIABLE = “value”

breaks the bash script, it needs to always be:

VARIABLE=”value”

Or if someone has another suggestion about how to read and write a file with this kind of entries (and restrictions) is fine too.

Thanks

Answer 1

Well, as suggested, I ended up writing my own parser for this that can be used exactly in the same way as ConfigObj:

config = MyConfigParser("configuration_file")
print config["CONFIG_OPTION_1"]  
config["CONFIG_OPTION_1"]= "Value 1"
print config["CONFIG_OPTION_1
config.write()

This is the code if someone is interested or wants to give suggestions (I started coding in python not so long ago so probably there are lots of room for improvement). It respects the comments and the order of the options in the file, and correctly scapes and adds double quotes where needed:

import os
import sys

class MyConfigParser:
  name = 'MyConfigParser'
  debug = False
  fileName = None
  fileContents = None
  configOptions = dict()  

  def __init__(self, fileName, debug=False):
    self.fileName = fileName
    self.debug = debug    
    self._open()

  def _open(self):       
    try:
        with open(self.fileName, 'r') as file:
    for line in file:
      #If it isn't a comment get the variable and value and put it on a dict
      if not line.startswith("#") and len(line) > 1:
    (key, val) = line.rstrip('\n').split('=')
    val = val.strip()
    val = val.strip('\"')
    val = val.strip('\'')
    self.configOptions[key.strip()] = val
except:
  print "ERROR: File "  + self.fileName + " Not Found\n"

  def write(self):
try:
  #Write the file contents
  with open(self.fileName, 'r+') as file:
    lines = file.readlines()
    #Truncate file so we don't need to close it and open it again 
    #for writing
    file.seek(0)
    file.truncate()      

    i = 0
    #Loop through the file to change with new values in dict      
    for line in lines:    
      if not line.startswith("#") and len(line) > 1:
    (key, val) = line.rstrip('\n').split('=')
    try:
      if key in line:
        newVal = self.configOptions[key]
        #Only update if the variable value has changed
        if val != newVal:
          newLine = key + "=\"" + newVal + "\"\n"
          line = newLine
    except:
      continue
      i +=1
      file.write(line)
except IOError as e:
  print "ERROR opening file " + self.fileName + ": " + e.strerror + "\n"


  #Redefinition of __getitem__ and __setitem__

  def __getitem__(self, key):  
try:
  return self.configOptions.__getitem__(key)
except KeyError as e:
  if isinstance(key,int):
    keys = self.configOptions.keys()
    return self.configOptions[keys[key]]
  else:
    raise KeyError("Key " +key+ " doesn't exist")

  def __setitem__(self,key,value):
self.configOptions[key] = value