Question

With python I want to transform Joomla ini language files to sql. However the joomla ini files actually misses any section (example: [translations])

Since the rawconfigparser almost does the job but it demands a section, so I construct a temp file with a ‘dummy’ section named [ALL]:

    fout = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=True)
    fin = file(self._inFilename, "r")
    fout.write("[ALL]\n")
    for f in fin.read():
            fout.write(f)
    config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser(allow_no_value=True)
    config.read(fout.name)
    for c in config.items("ALL"):
            self._ini2sql(unicode(c[0]).upper(), unicode('de'), unicode(c[1][1:-1]))

However… this is def. not the most elegant solution… any tips to make this more pythonic?

Answer 1

You could use a StringIO instead of creating an actual file:

from cStringIO import StringIO
import shutil

data = StringIO()
data.write('[ALL]\n')
with open(self._infilename, 'r') as f:
    shutil.copyfileobj(f, data)
data.seek(0)
config.readfp(data)