how can we create a config file from a nested directory in python?

Question

I'm new to learning python and i've learned to push a config file data into nested dict. how is it done vice versa? example fille would be like:

i need

dictonary = { 'section1': { 'name': 'abcd', 'language': 'python' }, 'section2': { 'name': 'aaaa', 'language': 'java' } }

into something like this

[section1]

name: abcd

language: python

[section2]

name: aaaa

language: java

Answer 1

Your expected output looks like a toml output. try:

import toml
toml.dumps(dictonary)

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Answer 2

This will work and here's why:

our_dict = {
  'section1':{
    'name':'abcd',
    'language':'python'
    },
  'section2':{
  'name':'aaaa',
  'language':'java'
    }
  } 
def dictFunc(dictionary):
  ret = ''
  for i in dictionary:
    value = dictionary.get(i)
    ret += '\n' + i + ':\n'
    for j in value:
      k = value.get(j)
      ret += j + ':' + k + '\n'
  return ret
print(dictFunc(our_dict))

First, we declare our_dict . Then, we declare the function dictFunc() , with one argument ; the dictionary . We make a variable named ret , which we will soon return . We start by looping the dictionary , and declaring the variable value . It's the dictionary 's second-place key (ie {'name':'aaaa','language':'java'} ). We make sure to add the key (ie section1) to ret . We loop our second-place key , or j , to get j and j's current key , or k (ie, name .). Finally, we get j's current second-place key , and link them together in ret . We now return ret .

Answer 3

You can use the module configparser .

import configparser

dictonary = {
    'section1' : { 'name' : 'abcd' , 'language' : 'python' } ,
    'section2' : { 'name' : 'aaaa' , 'language' : 'java' } }

config = configparser.RawConfigParser()
for section, pairs in dictonary.items():
    config.add_section(section)
    for k,v in pairs.items():
        config.set(section, k, v)

with open('example.cfg', 'w') as configfile:
    config.write(configfile)