Development Status
- 6 - Mature
Intended Audience
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: BSD License
Programming Language
- Python
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3.7
- Python :: 3.8
- Python :: 3.9
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3.12
Operating System
- OS Independent
Topic
- Software Development :: Libraries
- Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
ConfigObj is a simple but powerful config file reader and writer: an ini file round tripper. Its main feature is that it is very easy to use, with a straightforward programmer’s interface and a simple syntax for config files.
List of Features
Nested sections (subsections), to any level
List values
Multiple line values
Full Unicode support
String interpolation (substitution)
Integrated with a powerful validation system
including automatic type checking/conversion
and allowing default values
repeated sections
All comments in the file are preserved
The order of keys/sections is preserved
Powerful unrepr mode for storing/retrieving Python data-types
Changelog
Release 5.0.9
drop support for Python 2 and <3.7
fix CVE-2023-26112, ReDoS attack
Release 5.0.8
fixing/test for a regression introduced in 5.0.7 that prevented import validate from working
Release 5.0.7
update testing to validate against python version 2.7 and 3.5-3.11
update broken links / non-existent services and references
Older Releases
Release 5.0.6 improves error messages in certain edge cases
Release 5.0.5 corrects a unicode-bug that still existed in writing files
Release 5.0.4 corrects a unicode-bug that still existed in reading files after fixing lists of string in 5.0.3
Release 5.0.3 corrects errors related to the incorrectly handling unicode encoding and writing out files
Release 5.0.2 adds a specific error message when trying to install on Python versions older than 2.5
Release 5.0.1 fixes a regression with unicode conversion not happening in certain cases PY2
Release 5.0.0 updates the supported Python versions to 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 and is otherwise unchanged
Release 4.7.2 fixes several bugs in 4.7.1
Release 4.7.1 fixes a bug with the deprecated options keyword in 4.7.0.
Release 4.7.0 improves performance adds features for validation and fixes some bugs.