Saving/retrieving user preferences

[Brian Wallis]

This may be a FAQ,but I cannot find it.

I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
nice as well).

Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?

thanks,

[Brian Wallis]

Re: Saving/retrieving user preferences

(my last post seemed to not get out, sorry if you see it twice)

This may be a FAQ,but I cannot find it.

I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
nice as well).

Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?

thanks,

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brian...

[Miki Tebeka]

Re: Saving/retrieving user preferences

Hello Brian,
[color=blue]
> I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
> etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
> in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
> nice as well).
>
> Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?[/color]
Use internally (almost) any data types you find is best. The save/load is
using pickle.

Bye.
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[Fuzzyman]

Re: Saving/retrieving user preferences

ConfigObj is a nice way of reading/writing text config files.

It's case insensitive and handles quoting of keywords/values.

Reading and writing config files are single line commands.

You get access to keyword values using a dicitionary interface.

Values can be single values or lists (including nested lists if you
want).

Lots of other options.

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html

Regards,

Fuzzy

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/

[bruno modulix]

Re: Saving/retrieving user preferences

Brian Wallis wrote:[color=blue]
> This may be a FAQ,but I cannot find it.
>
> I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
> etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
> in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
> nice as well).
>
> Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?[/color]

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ConfigParser.html

HTH
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python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb@xiludom. gro'.split('@')])"

[Peter Hansen]

Re: Saving/retrieving user preferences

Brian Wallis wrote:[color=blue]
> This may be a FAQ,but I cannot find it.
>
> I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
> etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
> in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
> nice as well).
>
> Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?[/color]

As you can see from the replies so far, there is no 'standard', if by
that you mean "one single widely used solution". There are a dozen ways
to do it, with (as far as I can tell) no one standing out in popularity.

That said, I believe the ConfigParser approach is probably one of the
best combinations of simplicity and cleanliness.

-Peter

[flyingfred0]

Re: Saving/retrieving user preferences

If you're creating your GUI with wxPython, you might be able to use
wx.Config and related classes.

http://wxpython.org/docs/api/wx.ConfigBase-class.html

Brian Wallis wrote:[color=blue]
> This may be a FAQ,but I cannot find it.
>
> I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
> etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
> in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
> nice as well).
>
> Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?
>
> thanks,[/color]

[Brian Wallis]

Re: Saving/retrieving user preferences

Brian Wallis wrote:
[color=blue]
> I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
> etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
> in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
> nice as well).[/color]

Thank you all for the replies. I have a few options to try now. I'm using
wxPython so might investigate wxConfigBase for a start.

thansks,
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brian...