On 11/16/12 07:04, Thomas Bach wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 01:48:49PM +0100, chip9munk wrote: >> configparser has four functions: get, getboolean, getfloat and getint. >> >> how do I get list from cfg file?! > > AFAIK you have to parse the list yourself. Something like > > my_list = [ s.strip() for s in cp.get('section', 'option').split(',') ] > > if you use a comma as a separator.
For slightly more complex option text, you can use the CSV module to do the heavy lifting, so if you have something like [section] option="one, one, one",two,3 then you can have Python give you my_list = next(csv.reader([cp.get("section", "option")])) or alternatively use the shlex module and separate them like shell options: [section] option="one, one, one" two 3 then do my_list = list(shlex.shlex(cp.get("section", "option"))) Or yet one more way using Python list syntax for literals: [section] option=["one, one, one", "two", 3] and get them with my_list = ast.literal_eval(cp.get("section", "option)) Lots of fun (and batteries-included) ways depending on how you want to represent the list in the config file and what sorts of data it can contain. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list