read

Attempt to read and parse an iterable of filenames, returning a list of filenames which were successfully parsed.

Syntax

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read(filenames, encoding=None)

Examples

Example 1

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import configparser, os

config = configparser.ConfigParser()
config.read_file(open('defaults.cfg'))
config.read(['site.cfg', os.path.expanduser('~/.myapp.cfg')],
            encoding='cp1250')

See Also

bytes path-like object ConfigParser read_file() read() open() path-like object bytes