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): <class 'dict'>

Answer 2

For an individual section, e.g. "general", you can do:

dict(parser['general'])

Answer 3

In Python +3.6 you could do this

file.ini

[SECTION1]
one = 1
two = 2

[SECTION2]
foo = Hello
bar = World

[SECTION3]
param1 = parameter one
param2 = parameter two

file.py

import configparser

cfg = configparser.ConfigParser()
cfg.read('file.ini')
# Get one section in a dict
numbers = {k:v for k, v in cfg['SECTION1'].items()}

If you need all sections listed you should use cfg.sections()