Python configparser read the configuration file and resolve the error ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError:File contains no section headers method

Let me talk about the problem of reporting errors when reading the configuration file--ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers

Problem Description:

When practicing ConfigParser to read configuration files, cmd kept reporting an error: ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.

D:\test_python>python task_test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "task_test.py", line 20, in <module>
    pp=ParsePageObjectRepositoryConfig()
  File "task_test.py", line 9, in __init__
    self.cf.read("D:\\test_python\\dataDriven\\conf\\PageObjectRepository.ini")
  File "C:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 305, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 512, in _read
    raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: D:\test_python\dataDriven\conf\PageObjectRepository.ini, line: 1
'\xef\xbb\xbf#\xe6\xaf\x8f\xe4\xb8\xaa\xe9\xa1\xb5\xe9\x9d\xa2\xe7\x94\xa8\xe4\xb8\x80\xe4\xb8\xaasection \xe6\xa0\x87\xe8\xaf\x86\n'

Baidu took a look at the online solutions,

The error is reported because the configuration file PageObjectRepository.ini is edited by notepad under windows and saved as UTF-8 or unicode format, two bytes "\xff\xfe" or three bytes "\xef" will be added to the beginning of the file \xbb\xbf". That's--"BOM

The solution is to remove the DOM bytes before the configuration file is read.

There is also a function on the Internet to remove the BOM byte with regularity: it is to replace the corresponding byte with an empty string

The remove_BOM() function definition:

def remove_BOM(config_path):
    content = open(config_path).read()
    content = re.sub(r"\xfe\xff","", content)
    content = re.sub(r"\xff\xfe","", content)
    content = re.sub(r"\xef\xbb\xbf","", content)
    open(config_path, ‘w’).write(content)

Post my configuration file and the code to read the configuration file below--:

 

Code:

#encoding=utf-8
from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
import re

def remove_BOM(config_path):#Remove the BOM byte at the beginning of the configuration file
    content = open(config_path).read()
    content = re.sub(r"\xfe\xff","", content)
    content = re.sub(r"\xff\xfe","", content)
    content = re.sub(r"\xef\xbb\xbf","", content)
    open(config_path, ‘w’).write(content)

class ParsePageObjectRepositoryConfig(object):
    def __init__(self,config_path):
        self.cf=ConfigParser()#Generate parser
        self.cf.read(config_path)
        print "-"*80
        print "cf.read(config_path):\n", self.cf.read(config_path)

    def getItemsFromSection(self,sectionName):
        print self.cf.items(sectionName)
        return dict(self.cf.items(sectionName))

    def getOptionValue(self,sectionName,optionName):#return a dictionary
        return self.cf.get(sectionName,optionName)

 

if __name__==‘__main__’:
    remove_BOM("D:\\test_python\\PageObjectRepository.ini")
    pp=ParsePageObjectRepositoryConfig("D:\\test_python\\PageObjectRepository.ini")
    remove_BOM
    print "-"*80
    print "items of ‘126mail_login’:\n",pp.getItemsFromSection("126mail_login")
    print "-"*80
    print "value of ‘login_page.username’ under section ‘126mail_login’:\n",pp.getOptionValue("126mail_login","login_page.username")

 

result:

D:\test_python>python task_test.py
-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
cf.read(config_path):
[‘D:\\test_python\\PageObjectRepository.ini’]
-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
items of ‘126mail_login’:
[('login_page.frame','id>x-URS-iframe'), ('login_page.username', "xpath>//input[@name='email']"), ('login_page.password', "xpath>//input[@name='password']"), ('login_page.loginbutton','id>dologin')]
{'login_page.loginbutton':'id>dologin','login_page.username': "xpath>//input[@name='email']",'login_page.frame':'id>x-URS-iframe' ,'login_page.password': "xpath>//input[@name='password']"}
-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
value of ‘login_page.username’ under section ‘126mail_login’:
xpath>//input[@name=‘email’]

 

Python ConfigParser reads the configuration file and solves the error ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers

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