A cool experimental version of configparser. The CFG file syntax has to be: none, true, false, 'string', 1234

config_dict.py

class ConfigDict():
	comment_delimiters = ('#', ';')

	def __init__(self, path):
		self.path = path
		self.lines = None
		self.data = None

	def read(self):
		with open(self.path) as f:
			lines = f.readlines()
			self.lines = lines
			self.data = {}

			for line in lines:
				line = line.strip()

				if line != '' and line[0] not in self.comment_delimiters:
					if '=' in line:
						args = line.split('=')
						name = args[0].strip()
						value = args[1].strip()
						if value == 'true':
							value = True
						elif value == 'false':
							value = False
						elif value == 'none':
							value = None
						elif value[0] == "'" and value[-1] == "'":
							value = value[1:-1]
						else:
							value = int(value)
						self.data[name] = value

	def write(self):
		for idx, line in enumerate(self.lines):
			line = line.strip()

			if line != '' and line[0] not in self.comment_delimiters:
				if '=' in line:
					args = line.split('=')
					name = args[0].strip()
					value = args[1].strip()
					
					if name in self.data:
						value = self.data[name]
						if value is None:
							value = 'none'
						elif value is True:
							value = 'true'
						elif value is False:
							value = 'false'
						elif isinstance(value, str):
							value = "'%s'" % value
						elif isinstance(value, int):
							value = str(value)
						else:
							raise ValueError('unkown type')
						self.lines[idx] = name+' = '+ value+'\n'

		with open(self.path, 'w') as file:
			file.writelines( self.lines )

	def __getitem__(self, var):
		if self.data is None:
			self.read()
		return self.data[var]

	def __getattr__(self,var):
		if self.data is None:
			self.read()
		return self.data[var]

	def __setitem__(self,name,value):
		self.data[name] = value