Converting string to tuple and adding to tuple

Question

I have a config file like this.

[rects]
rect1=(2,2,10,10)
rect2=(12,8,2,10)

I need to loop through the values and convert them to tuples. I then need to make a tuple of the tuples like

((2,2,10,10), (12,8,2,10))

Answer 1

Instead of using a regex or int/string functions, you could also use the ast module's literal_eval function, which only evaluates strings that are valid Python literals. This function is safe (according to the docs). http://docs.python.org/library/ast.html#ast.literal_eval

import ast
ast.literal_eval("(1,2,3,4)") # (1,2,3,4)

And, like others have said, ConfigParser works for parsing the INI file.

Answer 2

To turn the strings into tuples of ints (which is, I assume, what you want), you can use a regex like this:

x = "(1,2,3)"
t = tuple(int(v) for v in re.findall("[0-9]+", x))

And you can use, say, configparser to parse the config file.