config parser - modified

[William Manley]

I was wondering if anyone can explain to me why I keep getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Documents and Settings/William/Desktop/test.py", line 4, in <module>
value = INI.getinifile ( 'P:/INI/test.ini', 'Testsection', 'Testoption', 'Default Value' )
File "C:\Python25\li b\INIfile.py", line 8, in getinifile
if len(Value) == 0:
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'len'

Here is the code of the two files:

INIfile.py:

from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
class INI:
    def getinifile ( self, FILE, SECTION, ITEM, DEFAULT ):
        p = ConfigParser()
        p.read(FILE)
        Value = p.get ( SECTION, ITEM ).lstrip().rstrip()
        if len(Value) == 0:
            Value = DEFAULT
        return Value

test.py

import INIfile

INI = INIfile.INI()
value = INI.getinifile ( 'P:/INI/test.ini', 'Testsection', 'Testoption', 'Default Value' )
print value

I just don't see what I'm doing wrong.

[bvdet]

I was wondering if anyone can explain to me why I keep getting this error:



Here is the code of the two files:

INIfile.py:

from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
class INI:
    def getinifile ( self, FILE, SECTION, ITEM, DEFAULT ):
        p = ConfigParser()
        p.read(FILE)
        Value = p.get ( SECTION, ITEM ).lstrip().rstrip()
        if len(Value) == 0:
            Value = DEFAULT
        return Value

test.py

import INIfile

INI = INIfile.INI()
value = INI.getinifile ( 'P:/INI/test.ini', 'Testsection', 'Testoption', 'Default Value' )
print value

I just don't see what I'm doing wrong.

William,

It looks like it should work. After 'p.read(FILE)', add these to see what data is available:

print p.sections()
print p.items(SECTION)

Add 'print Value' after Value is assigned to see what the object is.
Comment: str.strip() does the same thing as str.lstrip().rs trip().

[William Manley]

Okay, It actually worked great after restarting IDLE, I guess a bad version of my script got caught in IDLE. Thanks.

Also, thanks for that last part. :)

I also had to change it a bit for the default value to work, but I got it working nicely.

[William Manley]

Hmm...Now I am having a similar problem with the other function I need to finish the script, But restarting doesn't seem to help.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Documen ts and Settings\Willia m\Desktop\test. py", line 3, in <module>
INI.writeinifil e ( 'P:/INI/test.ini', 'Testsection', 'Testoption2', 'koo koo ka choo' )
File "C:\Python25\li b\INIfile.py", line 28, in writeinifile
p.write(FILE)
File "C:\Python25\li b\ConfigParser. py", line 369, in write
fp.write("[%s]\n" % section)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'write'
>>>

test.py

import INIfile
INI = INIfile.INI()
INI.writeinifile ( 'P:/INI/test.ini', 'Testsection', 'Testoption2', 'koo koo ka choo' )

INIfile.py

from ConfigParser import ConfigParser

class INI:
    def getinifile ( self, FILE, SECTION, ITEM, DEFAULT ):
        p = ConfigParser()
        p.read(FILE)
        if p.has_section ( SECTION ):
            print 'Has Section'
            if p.has_option ( SECTION, ITEM ):
                print 'Has Option'
                Value = p.get ( SECTION, ITEM ).strip()
            else:
                Value = DEFAULT
        else:
            Value = DEFAULT
        return Value
    def writeinifile ( self, FILE, SECTION, ITEM, VALUE ):
        p = ConfigParser()
        p.read(FILE)
        if p.has_section(SECTION):
            pass
        else:
            p.add_section(SECTION)
        if p.has_option(SECTION, ITEM):
            pass
        else:
            p.set(SECTION, ITEM, VALUE)
        p.write(FILE)