Pythonic reading from config files

Posted by Adam Matan on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Adam Matan
Published on 2010-04-11T09:32:35Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 9:33 UTC
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Hi,

I have a python class which reads a config file using ConfigParser:

Config file:

[geography]
Xmin=6.6
Xmax=18.6
Ymin=36.6
YMax=47.1

Python code:

class Slicer:
    def __init__(self, config_file_name):
        config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
        config.read(config_file_name)
        # Rad the lines from the file
        self.x_min = config.getfloat('geography', 'xmin')
        self.x_max = config.getfloat('geography', 'xmax')
        self.y_min = config.getfloat('geography', 'ymin')
        self.y_max = config.getfloat('geography', 'ymax')

I feel that the last four lines are repetitive, and should somehow be compressed to one Pythonic line that would create a self.item variable for each item in the section.

Any ideas?

Adam

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