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.ConfigParser() config.read('conf.ini')  connection_string = ("dbname='%(dbname)s' user='%(dbuser)s' host='%(host)s' "                      "password='%(password)s' port='%(port)s'")  print connection_string % config.items('db') 

Answer 1

Have you tried

print connection_string % dict(config.items('db')) 

?

Answer 2

How I did it in just one line.

my_config_parser_dict = {s:dict(config.items(s)) for s in config.sections()} 

No more than other answers but when it is not the real businesses of your method and you need it just in one place use less lines and take the power of dict comprehension could be useful.