What INI config file module allows lists of duplicate same-named options?

Sun Jan 9 16:11:15 EST 2011

At 02:52 PM 1/9/2011, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:
>Am 09.01.2011 21:43, schrieb Thomas L. Shinnick:
>>Having (possibly) surveyed all the available pypi config file 
>>modules, I still haven't seen one that allows an obvious and 
>>familiar extension of the strict Windows INI format.
>>>>Each INI-style config module seems to enforce the strict rule: each 
>>option in a section must have a different name - no 
>>duplicates. Thus it is impossible to have a simple list, e.g.
>>>> [pathset uk]
>> pathpair: /bath/* to /london/*
>> pathpair: /bath/upload/** to /london/*
>> pathpair: /firth/* to /forth/*
>> pathpair: /firth/upload/** to /forth/*
>>>>Rather you must give each line a separate name, e.g.
>>>> [pathset uk]
>> pathpair001: /bath/* to /london/*
>> pathpair002: /bath/upload/** to /london/*
>> pathpair003: /firth/* to /forth/*
>> pathpair004: /firth/upload/** to /forth/*
>> | | | | | |
>> pathpair068: /glasgow/* to /edinburgh/*
>> pathpair069: /glasgow/upload/** to /edinburgh/*
>> | | | | | |
>>>>This is not ideal for a number of reasons. Do you know of a 
>>library module that has the (optional?) ability to handle 
>>duplicate-named options, returning them as a list?
>>>>If instead someone can point me to a reasonable Apache-style config 
>>module, that might also serve. I've looked for such and the few 
>>found seemed to be either bare bones or clumsily stripped out of 
>>something much larger.
>>>>>>--
>>I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.
>> Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)
>I've let ini style files alone some time ago.
>Whenever possible I use JSON based files.
>>Your example could then look like this:
>>{
>"pathpairs":{
> "uk":[
> ["/bath/*","/london/*"],
> ["/bath/upload/**","/london/*"],
> ["/firth/*,"/forth/*"],
> ["/firth/upload/**","/forth/*"]
> ]
>}
>}
>>Since Python 2.7, json is in the standard library.

A reasonable response, if your only audience is computer folk. And 
used internally already. But in trying to be simple as can be for 
those installing and maintaining a package, INI-style configurations 
are a familiar format. As Apache-style configs would be. So, JSON 
is concise and flexible and easily handled by programs. But I was 
hoping for something easier for the poor soul coming back to a config 
after 2 months and wondering how to add something ... 
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