How to read config from string or list?

Question

Is it possible to read the configuration for ConfigParser from a string or list?
Without any kind of temporary file on a filesystem

OR
Is there any similar solution for this?

Answer 1

You could use a buffer which behaves like a file: Python 3 solution

import configparser import io  s_config = """ [example] is_real: False """ buf = io.StringIO(s_config) config = configparser.ConfigParser() config.read_file(buf) print(config.getboolean('example', 'is_real')) 

In Python 2.7, this implementation was correct:

import ConfigParser import StringIO  s_config = """ [example] is_real: False """ buf = StringIO.StringIO(s_config) config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() config.readfp(buf) print config.getboolean('example', 'is_real') 

Answer 2

The question was tagged as python-2.7 but just for the sake of completeness: Since 3.2 you can use the ConfigParser function read_string() so you don't need the StringIO method anymore.

import configparser  s_config = """ [example] is_real: False """ config = configparser.ConfigParser() config.read_string(s_config) print(config.getboolean('example', 'is_real'))