Is it possible to use ConfigParser to get random value

Question

I want to get a random value from .ini file in the range of 14, 55. I know I'm doing it wrong but what is the right way?

import random
import configparser

IN_settings = configparser.ConfigParser()
IN_settings.read('config.ini')

print(IN_settings['common'].getint((random.randint('out_put')))

and this is my config file:

[common]
out_put = 14, 55

Answer 1

The random.randint() function does not take a string as an argument. It takes two integers as arguments.

So, when you say random.randint('out_put') , the function does not work. 'out_put' is a string, not two integers.

You will need to read in the actual integers first. Of course, the field out_put is not a single integer, but rather two integers. We'll have to read it as a string, and then convert it.

range_str = IN_settings['common'].get('out_put')
range_ints = [int(x) for x in range_str.split(',')]
random_int = random.randint(range_ints[0], range_ints[1])
print(random_int)

That works. For your example file, this will print a random integer in the interval [14, 55] (including the end points).