use an external python script instead of the ugly bash/python line

config_updater.py

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import argparse
+import configparser
+
+
+def main():
+    """Update ini entry of a config file"""
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Update AskOmics config file')
+
+    parser.add_argument('-p', '--path', type=str, help='Path to config file', required=True)
+    parser.add_argument('-s', '--section', type=str, help='Section to add/update', required=True)
+    parser.add_argument('-k', '--key', type=str, help='Key to add into the section', required=True)
+    parser.add_argument('-v', '--value', type=str, help='Value of the key', required=True)
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    path = args.path
+    section = args.section
+    key = args.key
+    value = args.value
+
+    config = configparser.ConfigParser()
+    config.read(path)
+
+    if section not in config.sections():
+        config.add_section(section)
+
+    config[section][key] = value
+    config.write(open(path, 'w'))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()

startAskomics.sh

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ printenv | egrep "^ASKO_" | while read setting
 do
     key="askomics."$(echo $setting | egrep -o "^ASKO_[^=]+" | sed 's/^.\{5\}//g' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
     value=$(echo $setting | egrep -o "=.*$" | sed 's/^=//g')
-    $python_ex -c "import configparser; config = configparser.ConfigParser(); config.read('"$config_path"'); config['app:main']['"$key"'] = '"$value"'; config.write(open('"$config_path"', 'w'))"
+    $python_ex config_updater.py -p $config_path -s "app:main" -k $key -v $value
 done
 
 # This take ASKOCONFIG_ env to update config in any sections
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ do
     section=$(echo $sed_setting | egrep -o "^ASKOCONFIG_[^=]+" | sed 's/^.\{11\}//g' | cut -d "_" -f 1 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
     key=$(echo $sed_setting | egrep -o "^ASKOCONFIG_[^=]+" | sed 's/^.\{11\}//g' | sed "s/$section\_//g" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
     value=$(echo $sed_setting | egrep -o "=.*$" | sed 's/^=//g' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
-    $python_ex -c "import configparser; config = configparser.ConfigParser(); config.read('"$config_path"'); config.add_section('"$section"') if '"$section"' not in config.sections() else None; config['"$section"']['"$key"'] = '"$value"'; config.write(open('"$config_path"', 'w'))"
+    $python_ex config_updater.py -p $config_path -s $section -k $key -v $value
 done
 
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