Properties file in python (similar to Java Properties)

Question

Given the following format (.properties or .ini):

propertyName1=propertyValue1
propertyName2=propertyValue2
...
propertyNam         


        

Answer 1

I did this using ConfigParser as follows. The code assumes that there is a file called config.prop in the same directory where BaseTest is placed:

config.prop

[CredentialSection]
app.name=MyAppName

BaseTest.py:

import unittest
import ConfigParser

class BaseTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        __SECTION = 'CredentialSection'
        config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
        config.readfp(open('config.prop'))
        self.__app_name = config.get(__SECTION, 'app.name')

    def test1(self):
        print self.__app_name % This should print: MyAppName