How to remove spaces while writing in INI file- Python

Question

I am using a file and i have one section named DIR in which it contain the paths. EX:

[DIR]
DirTo=D:\\Ashish\\Jab Tak hai Jaan
DirBackup = D:\\Parser\\ERICS         


        

Answer 1

I ran into this problem to and I came up with an additional solution.

• I didn't want to replace the function as future versions of Python might change the internal function structures of RawConfigParser.
• I also didn't want to read the file back in right after it was written because that seemed wasteful

Instead I wrote a wrapper around the file object which simply replaces " = " with "=" in all lines written though it.

class EqualsSpaceRemover:
    output_file = None
    def __init__( self, new_output_file ):
        self.output_file = new_output_file

    def write( self, what ):
        self.output_file.write( what.replace( " = ", "=", 1 ) )

config.write( EqualsSpaceRemover( cfgfile ) )