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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-01-26 21:49:05 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-01-26 21:49:05 (GMT) |
commit | ebe2a12de8d036ebc254c5743be3c6e6529cf2d5 (patch) | |
tree | 31f73fafab59306089a5e785b41ededbbbf6621c | |
parent | e6506e753bd3c1fc5c32271d30db46fb41f8486f (diff) | |
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Incorporate changes for patched version of ConfigParser.
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex b/Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex index 7f09581..f3678ce 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The configuration file consists of sections, lead by a with continuations in the style of \rfc{959}. The optional values can contain format strings which refer to other values in the same section, or values in a special \code{DEFAULT} section. Additional -defaults can provided upon instantiation of the class. +defaults can be provided upon initialization and retrieval. For example: @@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ would resolve the \samp{\%(dir)s} to the value of dir. All reference expansions are done late, on demand. Intrinsic defaults can be specified by passing them into the -\class{ConfigParser} constructor as a dictionary. +\class{ConfigParser} constructor as a dictionary. Additional defaults +may be passed into the \method{get} method which will override all +others. \begin{classdesc}{ConfigParser}{\optional{defaults}} Return a new instance of the \class{ConfigParser} class. When @@ -66,6 +68,7 @@ headers. Exception raised when errors occur attempting to parse a file. \end{excdesc} + \subsection{ConfigParser Objects \label{ConfigParser-objects}} \class{ConfigParser} instances have the following methods: @@ -91,11 +94,11 @@ Returns a list of options available in the specified \var{section}. Read and parse a list of filenames. \end{methoddesc} -\begin{methoddesc}{get}{section, option\optional{, raw}} +\begin{methoddesc}{get}{section, option\optional{, raw\optional{, vars}}} Get an \var{option} value for the provided \var{section}. All the \samp{\%} interpolations are expanded in the return values, based on -the defaults passed into the constructor, unless the \var{raw} -argument is true. +the defaults passed into the constructor, as well as the options +\var{vars} provided, unless the \var{raw} argument is true. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{getint}{section, option} |