I want to have a hand in creating an excellent personal information manager (PIM) that can be a worthy successor to Ecco Pro. So far, running EccoExt (a clever and expansive hack of Ecco Pro) has been a eminently practical solution. Â You can download the most recent version of this actively developed extension from the files section of the ecco_pro Yahoo! group. Â I would do so regularly but one of the painful problems with unpacking (using unrar) the new files is that there wasn't an updater that would retain the configuration options of the existing setup. Â So a mundane but happy-making programming task of this afternoon was to write a Python script to do exact that function, making use of the builtin ConfigParser library.
"""
compare eccoext.ini files
My goal is to edit the new file so that any overlapping values take on the current value
"""
current_file_path = "/private/tmp/14868/C/Program Files/ECCO/eccoext.ini"
new_file_path = "/private/tmp/14868/C/utils/eccoext.ini"
updated_file = "/private/tmp/14868/C/utils/updated_eccoext.ini"
# extract the key value pairs in both files to compare the two
# http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html
import ConfigParser
def extract_values(fname):
# generate a parsed configuration object, set of (section, options)
config = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser()
options_set = set()
config.read(fname)
sections = config.sections()
for section in sections:
options = config.options(section)
for option in options:
#value = config.get(section,option)
options_set.add((section,option))
return (config, options_set)
# process current file and new file
(current_config, current_options) = extract_values(current_file_path)
(new_config, new_options) = extract_values(new_file_path)
# what are the overlapping options
overlapping_options = current_options & new_options
# figure out which of the overlapping options are the values different
for (section,option) in overlapping_options:
current_value = current_config.get(section,option)
new_value = new_config.get(section,option)
if current_value != new_value:
print section, option, current_value, new_value
new_config.set(section,option,current_value)
# write the updated config file
with open(updated_file, 'wb') as configfile:
new_config.write(configfile)
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