Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

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The steps for this recipe are:

1. Most of the work of loading and parsing .ini can be done by the configparser module itself, but we are going to extend it to implement per-section default values and converters:

import configparser def read_config(config_text, schema=None): """Read options from ``config_text`` applying given ``schema``""" schema = schema or {} cfg = configparser.ConfigParser( interpolation=configparser.ExtendedInterpolation() ) try: cfg.read_string(config_text) except configparser.MissingSectionHeaderError: config_text = '[main]\n' + config_text cfg.read_string(config_text) config = {} for section in schema: options = config.setdefault(section, {}) for option, option_schema in schema[section].items(): options[option] ...