Getting a list from a config file with ConfigParser

Question

I have something like this in my config file (a config option that contains a list of strings):

[filters]
filtersToCheck = [\'foo\', \'192.168.1.2\', \'barba         


        

Answer 1

ss = """a_string = 'something'
filtersToCheck = ['foo', '192.168.1.2', 'barbaz']
   a_tuple =      (145,'kolo',45)"""

import re
regx = re.compile('^ *([^= ]+) *= *(.+)',re.MULTILINE)


for mat in regx.finditer(ss):
    x = eval(mat.group(2))
    print 'name :',mat.group(1)
    print 'value:',x
    print 'type :',type(x)
    print

result

name : a_string
value: something
type : 

name : filtersToCheck
value: ['foo', '192.168.1.2', 'barbaz']
type : 

name : a_tuple
value: (145, 'kolo', 45)
type : 

Then

li = [ (mat.group(1),eval(mat.group(2))) for mat in regx.finditer(ss)]
print li

result

[('a_string', 'something'), ('filtersToCheck', ['foo', '192.168.1.2', 'barbaz']), ('a_tuple', (145, 'kolo', 45))]