Problem with ConfigObject

[lalithak85]

Hi All,

I am writing a python script which is basically connecting to a web site using userid and password.I am getting all the site and login information from a configuration file.Inorder to access those parameters I have used ConfigObject.But when I run that program I am getting the error
import ConfigObj
ImportError: No module named ConfigObj

Can anyone please help me in this regard???

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Hi lalithak85 and welcome to the Python Discussion Board.

I'm not entirely sure I understand your problem so I apologise if what I'm about to say doesn't help.

From what I've learned right now using Google, ConfigObj lets you read config files. I've also learned that it is a separate file that doesn't come with Python, so it clearly doesn't come with PyS60.

So your error is most likely due to the fact that you didn't have the configobj.py file. Try copying it to your phone (or appropriate location in the emulator if you're using one) and add this to the code before "import ConfigObj":

import sys
sys.path.append("C:\\")
#Note that I used C:\ as an example. You should specify the path to configobj.py

Hope that helps

[lalithak85]

Hi Bogdan,
Thanks for ur reply..I have tried that.But It is still showing that error..
Below is the code which i wrote
import re
#from mechanize import Browser
#from mechanize import FormFiller
#from URI import URL
import sys
sys.path.append('C:\\configobj.py')
from configobj import ConfigObj


print "------------------------------------------------------------------------.\n\
Extracting users (user_id, login_name, email, real name, organization)\n";
#cfg=ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
#cfg.read("csd200a-mech.ini")
cfg = ConfigObj("csd200a-mech.ini")
site_id=cfg["site_id"]
admin_id=cfg["admin_id"]
admin_passwd=cfg["admin_passwd"]
print "$site_id"
print "$admin_id"
print "$admin_passwd"

Please help me in this regard.

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Okay, first please use the CODE tags when posting code to make it easier to read and keep indentation. Just write ["code"] and ["/code"] (without the quotes) around the code.

The first problem I see is that you wrote

sys.path.append('C:\\configobj.py')

I meat specify the path up until the file. So that would be:

sys.path.append('C:\\')

#To show what I mean, if the file was located at E:\myfolder\configobj.py, you would have to write:

sys.path.append('E:\\myfolder')

Please try it now and let us know of the result.

[lalithak85]

Hi Bogdan,
Yep It worked Thanks a lot!!!!I have another doubt.
In perl we have something like www:mechanize to interact with web sites.Is there any equivalent one in python???

[bogdan.galiceanu]

I'm not too skilled with web pages, especially when it comes to manipulating them with Python. But I can tell you that urllib is a useful module when it comes to things like this.
It would be a good idea to wait for someone more competent in this domain to answer this question.

Glad I was able to help so far

[Take0n]

Hello

I have an .ini (settings file) which contains following:

[section1]
item1=value
item2=value

[section2]
item3=value

I put the "test.ini" and the "configobj.py" files in "E:\".

I then run the following script (iniread.py):

import sys
sys.path.append("E:\\")
import configobj
from configobj import ConfigObj

config = ConfigObj("test.ini")

section = config['section2']
value = section['item3']

print 'item3 : ' + value

But I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\private\2000b1a5\default.py", line 81, in menu_action
f()
File "C:\private\2000b1a5\default.py", line 65, in query_and_exec
execfile(script_list[index][1]. encode('utf-8'), script_namespace. namespace)
File "C:\python\iniread.py", line 8, in ?
section = config['section2']
File "E:\configobj.py", line 580, in __getitem__
val = dict.__getitem__(self, key)
KeyError: section2

What do I get wrong? I don't understand :\

I also want to know how to read a file that is not in the same folder as configobj.py I tried with E:\\foldername\test.ini but I got a parse error in configobj.py...