News

2 Mar 2009 - iniparse-0.3.1 released

• Fix empty-line handling bugs introduced in 0.3.0

27 Feb 2009 - iniparse-0.3.0 released

• Fix handling of continuation lines
• Fix DEFAULT handling
• Fix picking/unpickling

6 Dec 2008 - iniparse-0.2.4 released

• Updated to work with Python-2.6 (Python-2.4 and 2.5 are still supported)
• Support for files opened in unicode mode
• Fixed Python-3.0 compatibility warnings
• Minor API cleanup

11 Dec 2007 - iniparse-0.2.3 released

• Preserve whitespace around option/value separators
• Correctly handle empty files

24 Sep 2007 - iniparse-0.2.2 released

• Allow multi-line values to span comments and blank lines

Introduction to iniparse

iniparse is a INI parser for Python which is:

• Compatiable with ConfigParser: Backward compatible implementations of ConfigParser, RawConfigParser, and SafeConfigParser are included that are API-compatible with the Python standard library. They pass all the unit tests in Python-2.4.4.

• Preserves structure of INI files: Order of sections & options, indentation, comments, and blank lines are preserved as far as possible when data is updated.

• More convenient: Values can be accessed using dotted notation (cfg.user.name), or using container syntax (cfg['user']['name']).

It is very useful for config files that are updated both by users and by programs, since it is very disorienting for a user to have her config file completely rearranged whenever a program changes it. iniparse also allows making the order of entries in a config file significant, which is desirable in applications like image galleries.

More Information

• UsageExamples
• PyPI / Cheese Shop
• UpgradeNotes for people using cfgparse-0.1