Question

Using the code described bellow, i can sucessfully retrieve the properties stored into the file.cfg, but how can i use the output into others variables?

from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser

class Main:

   def get_properties(self, section, *variables):
        cfgFile = 'c:\file.cfg'
        parser = SafeConfigParser()
        parser.read(cfgFile)
        properties= variables
        return {
            variable : parser.get(section,variable) for variable in properties

        }

   def run_me(self):
        config_vars= self.get_properties('database','host','dbname')
        print config_vars

op=Main()
op.run_me()

Im still learning Python, but i’m not sure what i need to do to set the output into individual variables:

current output:

{'host': 'localhost', 'dbname': 'sample'} 

what i would like to have:

db_host = localhost
db_name = sample

Answer 1

def run_me(self):
     config_vars= self.get_properties('database','host','dbname')
     for key, value in config_vars.items():
         print key, "=", value

You recieved dict-object config_vars, so your can using config variables as values of the dict:

 >>> print config_vars["dbname"]
 sample
 >>> print config_vars["host"]
 localhost

Read more about python dictionaries in documentation.