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Re: section with in a section config file and reading that config file

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On Friday, 19 October 2012 15:39:57 UTC+5:30, Tarek Ziadé  wrote:
> On 10/19/12 11:51 AM, kampy wrote:
> 
> > hi all,
> 
> > my requirement is to have section with in a section in config parameters
> 
> > ex:
> 
> > [AAA]
> 
> >      [BBB]
> 
> >       a=1
> 
> >       b=1
> 
> >      [CCC]
> 
> >       a=1
> 
> >       b=2
> 
> > Any one help me in  understanding how to make sure that config file to have a structure like this and reading with the config parser
> 
> a configuration file is a flat sequences of sections, you cannot do this
> 
> 
> 
> what you could do is have 2 files, and add a link from one to the other:
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> file1.ini:
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> 
> 
>    [AAA]
> 
>    extended = file2.ini
> 
> 
> 
> file2.ini:
> 
> 
> 
>    [BBB]
> 
>    a=1
> 
>    b=1
> 
> 
> 
>    [CCC]
> 
>    a=1
> 
>    b=2
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> then create a bit of logic on the top of ConfigParser to read back those 
> 
> values
> 
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> Tarek

yes but it is not only for one structure like above there will be many sections like that

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section with in a section config file and reading that config file kampy <narasimha18sv@gmail.com> - 2012-10-19 02:51 -0700
  Re: section with in a section config file and reading that config file Tarek Ziadé <tarek@ziade.org> - 2012-10-19 12:09 +0200
    Re: section with in a section config file and reading that config file narasimha18sv@gmail.com - 2012-10-19 03:22 -0700
      Re: section with in a section config file and reading that config file Tarek Ziadé <tarek@ziade.org> - 2012-10-19 15:57 +0200
        Re: section with in a section config file and reading that config file rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-10-19 07:26 -0700
    Re: section with in a section config file and reading that config file narasimha18sv@gmail.com - 2012-10-19 03:22 -0700
    Re: section with in a section config file and reading that config file Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-19 21:29 +0000
      Re: section with in a section config file and reading that config file Tarek Ziadé <tarek@ziade.org> - 2012-10-19 23:59 +0200
        Re: section with in a section config file and reading that config file Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-19 22:59 +0000
  Re: section with in a section config file and reading that config file Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-10-19 17:46 -0400

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