Philosophy

• a config file is a Fieldset container, which contain Fields
• a Field can be one or multiple lines from the config file
• a Field can represent anything from the config file (key / value, comment, empty line)
• a field can contain a Fieldset (eg: sections in a ini file)

# Quickstart

Here is a simple config file, which contain only key / value pairs:

var1 = value1;

var2 = value2;

var3 = value3;

You just need to call your parser, which return the Fieldset associated to you config file content:

parser = etcparse.Parser()
fieldset = parser.parse(conf)

You can now accessing to your parameters through the fieldset like a dict

var1 = fieldset['var1']
for k in fieldset:
    field = fieldset[k]
    print field.cleaned_value()

and display your fieldset content in your config file format

print str(fieldset)

Installation

With easy_install or pip

https://github.com/gdugas/etcparse/archive/master.zip

or simply download the tarball, unzip, and run

python setup.py install