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I have a file looks like below

[SectionOne]
Status: Single
Name: Derek
Value: Yes
Age: 30
Single: True

After i read and modify a field, the delimiter is getting changed to '=' instead of ':' as below

[SectionOne]
Status = Married
Name = Derek
Value = Yes
Age = 30
Single = True

I am using python 2.7 and i cannot migrate to a new version of python now.

the code is below

Config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
Config.read("Bacpypes.ini")
cfgfile = open("Bacpypes.ini")
Config.set('SectionOne', 'Status', 'Married')
Config.write(cfgfile
cfgfile.close()

Thanks in advance

Try to subclass the ConfigParser to modify its behaviour so it writes a : instead of =:

class MyConfigParser(ConfigParser.ConfigParser):

 def write(self, fp):
 """Write an .ini-format representation of the configuration state."""
 if self._defaults:
 fp.write("[%s]n" % DEFAULTSECT)
 for (key, value) in self._defaults.items():
 fp.write("%s = %sn" % (key, str(value).replace('n', 'nt')))
 fp.write("n")
 for section in self._sections:
 fp.write("[%s]n" % section)
 for (key, value) in self._sections[section].items():
 if key == "__name__":
 continue
 if (value is not None) or (self._optcre == self.OPTCRE):
 key = ": ".join((key, str(value).replace('n', 'nt')))
 fp.write("%sn" % (key))
 fp.write("n")

Then use MyConfigParser:

config = MyConfigParser()
config.read("Bacpypes.ini")
...

In addition to that there are two errors in your code:

• You did not open the file for writing.




• You have unbalanced parentheses.

Both should prevent the code from running.