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Just starting in on my Python learning curve, and hitting a snag in porting some code up to Python 2.7. It appears that in Python 2.7 it is no longer possible to perform a deepcopy() on instances of ConfigParser. It also appears that the Python team isn't terribly interested in restoring such a capability:
http://bugs.python.org/issue16058
Can someone propose an elegant solution for manually constructing a deepcopy/duplicate of an instance of ConfigParser?
Many thanks, -Pete
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Just use a StringIO object and the configparser's write method. It looks like the only method for "printing" the contents of a config object is ConfigParser. write which takes a file-like object.
Read and parse one configuration file, given as a file object. Read configuration from a given string. Read configuration from a dictionary. Keys are section names, values are dictionaries with keys and values that should be present in the section.
Python's ConfigParser module is part of the standard library. The module provides a parser for simple configuration files consisting of groups of named values.
The previous solution doesn't work in all python3 use cases. Specifically if the original parser is using Extended Interpolation the copy may fail to work correctly. Fortunately, the easy solution is to use the pickle module:
def deep_copy(config:configparser.ConfigParser)->configparser.ConfigParser:
"""deep copy config"""
rep = pickle.dumps(config)
new_config = pickle.loads(rep)
return new_config
Based on @Toenex answer, modified for Python 2.7:
import StringIO
import ConfigParser
# Create a deep copy of the configuration object
config_string = StringIO.StringIO()
base_config.write(config_string)
# We must reset the buffer to make it ready for reading.
config_string.seek(0)
new_config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
new_config.readfp(config_string)
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