How to get the user.email config using gitpython ?

Question

I have a repo initialized as

r = git.Repo.init(dirPath)

How can I get the user.email field for the git config for that repo using gitpython?

Answer 1

After looking into the source of gitpython this is one way I managed to do it.

r = git.Repo.init(dirPath)
reader = r.config_reader()
field = reader.get_value("user","email")