How to read a config file using python

Question

I have a config file abc.txt which looks somewhat like:

path1 = "D:est1first"
path2 = "D:est2second"
path3 = "D:est2hird"

I want to read these paths from the abc.txt to use it in my program to avoid hard coding.

Answer 1

In order to use my example, your file "abc.txt" needs to look like:

[your-config]
path1 = "D:est1first"
path2 = "D:est2second"
path3 = "D:est2hird"

Then in your software you can use the config parser:

import ConfigParser

and then in your code:

 configParser = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()   
 configFilePath = r'c:abc.txt'
 configParser.read(configFilePath)

Use case:

self.path = configParser.get('your-config', 'path1')

*Edit (@human.js)

In Python 3, ConfigParser is renamed to configparser (as described here)