dkconfig – command line access to ConfigParser¶
Installing from PyPI¶
pip install dkconfig
Basic usage¶
Most of the methods of ConfigParser
(https://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser)
should be usable in a relatively obvious way, however, dkconfig tries to
give you some sane defaults to make your life easier, e.g. it will create
files/headers/keys that don’t exist:
/tst> ll
/tst> dkconfig foo.ini set header key value
/tst> cat foo.ini
[header]
key = value
Sections can be added:
/tst> dkconfig foo.ini add_section header2
/tst> cat foo.ini
[header]
key = value
[header2]
re-adding them is a no-op (and doesn’t throw an exception):
/tst> dkconfig foo.ini add_section header2
/tst> cat foo.ini
[header]
key = value
[header2]
the values command pretty prints the keys and values:
/tst> dkconfig foo.ini values
key => value
the dos command will output the key/values as dos set commands:
/tst> dkconfig foo.ini dos
set "KEY=value"
from a batch file you would use it like this:
dkconfig foo.ini dos > tmp.bat && call tmp.bat && del tmp.bat
the bash command does the same for bash, and you’ll use it together with
eval:
eval $(dkconfig foo.ini bash)
You can read values directly into dos variables in the regular way:
> for /f "delims=" %a in ('dkconfig foo.ini get header key') do @set KEY=%a
> echo %KEY%
value
Bash has a more sane syntax for this:
bash$ export KEY=$(dkconfig foo.ini get header key)
bash$ echo $KEY
value
The appropriate error returns are set if a key is missing:
/tst> dkconfig foo.ini get header missing
/tst> echo %ERRORLEVEL%
1
/tst> dkconfig foo.ini get header key
value
/tst> echo %ERRORLEVEL%
0
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