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Dumps a Config file into a Python dictionary
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''' Dumps a config file of the type readable by ConfigParser | |
into a dictionary | |
Ref: http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html | |
''' | |
import sys | |
import ConfigParser | |
class GetDict: | |
def __init__(self, config): | |
self.config = config | |
def get_dict(self): | |
config = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser() | |
config.read(self.config) | |
sections_dict = {} | |
# get all defaults | |
defaults = config.defaults() | |
temp_dict = {} | |
for key in defaults.iterkeys(): | |
temp_dict[key] = defaults[key] | |
sections_dict['default'] = temp_dict | |
# get sections and iterate over each | |
sections = config.sections() | |
for section in sections: | |
options = config.options(section) | |
temp_dict = {} | |
for option in options: | |
temp_dict[option] = config.get(section,option) | |
sections_dict[section] = temp_dict | |
return sections_dict | |
if __name__== '__main__': | |
if len(sys.argv) == 1: | |
print 'Must provide the path to the config file as the argument' | |
sys.exit(1) | |
getdict = GetDict(sys.argv[1]) | |
config_dict=getdict.get_dict() | |
# print the entire dictionary | |
# Trick from http://stackoverflow.com/a/3314411/59634 | |
import json | |
print json.dumps(config_dict, indent=2) |
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