Parsing .ini files in python

Question

As per the documentation (https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html), I use the configparser for parsing the .ini files

Code :

import ConfigParser
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True)
config.read('D:\\test\\sample.ini')
print(config.sections())

Sample ini file1 : (Working)

[Group1]   
test_value1=0  
test_value2=5

This code is working and it loads the sample ini file1 successfully

but few following ini files are not parsed using the above code, Could someone help me on this, please

Sample ini file 2 : (Not Working)

[Group1]   
    test_value1=0  
    test_value2=5

Sample ini file 3 : (Not Working)

   [Group1]
     [[inner_group1]]
       test_value1=0 
       test_value2=5

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Harry

Answer 1

Most ini parsers (link), including ConfigParser, don't support hierarchy a.k.a nested structures. For that you will need to pick a different format. Try YAML or JSON.