How to read a config file using python

Question

I have a config file abc.txt which looks somewhat like:

path1 = "D:\test1\first" path2 = "D:\test2\second" path3 = "D:\test2\third" 

I want to read these paths from the abc.txt to use it in my program to avoid hard coding.

Answer 1

In order to use my example, your file "abc.txt" needs to look like this.

[your-config] path1 = "D:\test1\first" path2 = "D:\test2\second" path3 = "D:\test2\third" 

Then in your code you can use the config parser.

import ConfigParser  configParser = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()    configFilePath = r'c:\abc.txt' configParser.read(configFilePath) 

As human.js noted in his comment, in Python 3, ConfigParser has been renamed configparser. See Python 3 ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser' for more details.