More about IniFile parser

In Epure this section for parsing Ini files appeared because other python libraries that exist are somewhat inconvinient and complicated.

Having a ini file - we can just get it fields using . (dot) notation.

Parsing Ini File

example.ini

db_host = localhost

[general]
db_port = 5432

[public]

[section1]
db_port = 323

[section1.section2]
db_user = user

[section1.section2.section3]
pi_begins = 3.14159265359

[epure.best.app.forever]
epure_is_the_best = true

We can easily parse it:

example_ini = IniFile('./example.ini')

db_host = example_ini.db_host # 'localhost'

db_port = example_ini.general.db_port # 5432

db_user = example_ini.section1.section2.db_user # "user"
an_db_user = example_ini.section1.db_port # 323

pi_begins = example_ini.section1.section2.section3.pi_begins # 3.14159265359

epure_is_the_best = example_ini.epure.best.app.forever.epure_is_the_best # True

db_host = example_ini.not_exist_prop # None

example_ini = IniFile('not_exist_config.ini') # non-existent ini file will raise an error
db_host = example_ini.db_host
assert db_host == None