Welcome to python-libeconf’s documentation!

python-libeconf is a Python Library which offers Python bindings for libeconf.

libeconf is a highly flexible and configurable library to parse and manage key=value configuration files. It reads configuration file snippets from different directories and builds the final configuration file for the application from it.

Contents

• Usage
  • install
• API
  • Functions to interact with config files
    • read_file()
    • read_file_with_callback()
    • new_key_file()
    • new_ini_file()
    • merge_files()
    • read_dirs()
    • read_dirs_with_callback()
    • read_dirs_history()
    • read_dirs_history_with_callback()
    • comment_tag()
    • set_comment_tag()
    • delimiter_tag()
    • set_delimiter_tag()
    • write_file()
    • get_path()
  • Functions for getting values
    • get_groups()
    • get_keys()
    • get_int_value()
    • get_uint_value()
    • get_float_value()
    • get_string_value()
    • get_bool_value()
  • Functions for getting values with defaults
    • get_int_value_def()
    • get_uint_value_def()
    • get_float_value_def()
    • get_string_value_def()
    • get_bool_value_def()
  • Functions for setting values
    • set_value()
    • set_int_value()
    • set_uint_value()
    • set_float_value()
    • set_string_value()
    • set_bool_value()
  • Functions for memory management
    • free_file()
  • Functions for handling error codes
    • err_string()
    • err_location()