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| -rw-r--r-- | cloudinit/cfg.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/cloudinit/cfg.py b/cloudinit/cfg.py index dd8f7baf..215ed855 100644 --- a/cloudinit/cfg.py +++ b/cloudinit/cfg.py @@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ import io from ConfigParser import (NoSectionError, NoOptionError, RawConfigParser) +# This config parser will not throw when sections don't exist +# and you are setting values on those sections which is useful +# when writing to new options that may not have corresponding +# sections. Also it can default other values when doing gets +# so that if those sections/options do not exist you will +# get a default instead of an error. Another useful case where +# you can avoid catching exceptions that you typically don't +# care about... class DefaultingConfigParser(RawConfigParser): DEF_INT = 0 |