Properties file in python (similar to Java Properties)

I was able to get this to work with ConfigParser, no one showed any examples on how to do this, so here is a simple python reader of a property file and example of the property file. Note that the extension is still .properties, but I had to add a section header similar to what you see in .ini files... a bit of a bastardization, but it works.

The python file: PythonPropertyReader.py

#!/usr/bin/python    import ConfigParserconfig = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()config.read('ConfigFile.properties')print config.get('DatabaseSection', 'database.dbname');

The property file: ConfigFile.properties

[DatabaseSection]database.dbname=unitTestdatabase.user=rootdatabase.password=

For more functionality, read: https://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html

For .ini files there is the configparser module that provides a format compatible with .ini files.

Anyway there's nothing available for parsing complete .properties files, when I have to do that I simply use jython (I'm talking about scripting).

I know that this is a very old question, but I need it just now and I decided to implement my own solution, a pure python solution, that covers most uses cases (not all):

def load_properties(filepath, sep='=', comment_char='#'):    """    Read the file passed as parameter as a properties file.    """    props = {}    with open(filepath, "rt") as f:        for line in f:            l = line.strip()            if l and not l.startswith(comment_char):                key_value = l.split(sep)                key = key_value[0].strip()                value = sep.join(key_value[1:]).strip().strip('"')                 props[key] = value     return props

You can change the sep to ':' to parse files with format:

key : value

The code parses correctly lines like:

url = "http://my-host.com"name = Paul = Pablo# This comment line will be ignored

You'll get a dict with:

{"url": "http://my-host.com", "name": "Paul = Pablo" }