#!/usr/bin/env python from ConfigParser import RawConfigParser as Parser from ConfigParser import MissingSectionHeaderError from StringIO import StringIO import sys HEADER = ''' # YOU DO NOT NEED TO EDIT THIS FILE # This is a generated file. To update the configuration, # edit the *.update file of the same name, and then # run 'make ini' # Configuration settings in the *.update file will override # or be added to the base 'example.ini' file. ''' def main(source_ini, update_ini): parser = Parser() # By default, the parser is case insensitve and rewrites config # keys to lowercase. reddit is case sensitive, however # See: http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.optionxform parser.optionxform = str # parser.read() will "fail" silently if the file is # not found; use open() and parser.readfp() to fail # on missing (or unreadable, etc.) file parser.readfp(open(source_ini)) with open(update_ini) as f: updates = f.read() try: # Existing *.update files don't include section # headers; inject a [DEFAULT] header if the parsing # fails parser.readfp(StringIO(updates)) except MissingSectionHeaderError: updates = "[DEFAULT]\n" + updates parser.readfp(StringIO(updates)) print HEADER parser.write(sys.stdout) if __name__ == '__main__': args = sys.argv if len(args) != 3: print 'usage: %s [source] [update]' % sys.argv[0] sys.exit(1) else: main(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])