Convert ConfigParser.items('') to dictionary

Question

How can I convert the result of a ConfigParser.items(\'section\') to a dictionary to format a string like here:

import ConfigParser

config = ConfigParser.Co         


        

Answer 1

Here is another approach using Python 3.7 with configparser and ast.literal_eval:

game.ini

[assets]
tileset = {0:(32, 446, 48, 48), 
           1:(96, 446, 16, 48)}

game.py

import configparser
from ast import literal_eval

config = configparser.ConfigParser()
config.read('game.ini')

# convert a string to dict
tileset = literal_eval(config['assets']['tileset'])

print('tileset:', tileset)
print('type(tileset):', type(tileset))

output

tileset: {0: (32, 446, 48, 48), 1: (96, 446, 16, 48)}
type(tileset):