Added sample script for ConfigParser

Author: jotbe

conf-sample.py

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+#!/bin/env python
+#
+# conf-sample.py - Read and write configuration files
+#
+# This script is an example for a config parser
+#
+# Author: Jan Beilicke <dev@jotbe-fx.de>
+# Date created: 2011-03-31
+#
+# == Use cases ==
+# 
+# - Read a default config from a template
+# - Edit and add config sections and items
+# - Write changed values to config file
+#
+# == Sample config ==
+#
+# # Test config for conf.py, save it as 'conf.ini'
+# [global]
+# spam = Ni!
+# eggs = foo, bar
+# max_eggs = 10
+# 
+# [specific]
+# max_knights = 15
+#
+
+import ConfigParser
+import io
+from types import *
+
+confFile = 'conf.ini'
+conf = '''
+[global]
+spam = Ni!
+eggs = foo, bar
+max_eggs = 5
+skip_bridge
+
+[specific]
+max_knights = 15
+'''
+
+config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser(allow_no_value = True)
+
+# Read the config
+# Switch the comments of the following two lines if you want to read
+# from confFile
+config.read(confFile)
+#config.readfp(io.BytesIO(conf))
+
+print config.get('global', 'eggs').split(',')
+print 'Max eggs: ', config.getint('global', 'max_eggs')
+# Get item without value, returns either True or False
+print 'Skip bridge: ', (type(config.get('global', 'skip_bridge')) == NoneType)
+
+# Add new section
+sec = 'new_section'
+try:
+    config.add_section(sec)
+except ConfigParser.DuplicateSectionError:
+    print 'Section %s exists ... updating ...' % sec
+
+config.set('new_section', 'life', 'brian')
+config.set('new_section', 'favorite_color', 'blue')
+
+# Edit existing section
+config.set('global', 'max_eggs', 20)
+print 'Max eggs: ', config.getint('global', 'max_eggs')
+
+# Write to file
+with open(confFile, 'wb') as configfile:
+        config.write(configfile)
+
+print 'Done.'