MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.(configparser)

问题

I'm using configparser in order to read and modify automatically a file conf named 'streamer.conf'. I'm doing this :

import configparser

config = configparser.ConfigParser()
config.read('C:/Users/../Desktop/streamer.conf')

And then it breaks apart with this Error message :

MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: 'C:/Users/../Desktop/streamer.conf', line: 1
u'input{\n'

What might be wrong? Any help appreciated.

回答1:

just specify right encoding

config.read(config_file_path, encoding='utf-8-sig')

"utf-8-sig" for UTF-8 with BOM
"utf-8" for UTF-8 without BOM

回答2:

I got the same error message when I created a pip.conf file. In my case, I had inadvertently created a UTF-8 file with BOM (byte-order marker) instead of a plain UTF-8 file (with no BOM).

So, check to make sure you have a plain text file. If you're not sure, you can open the file in a hex editor and check the first byte(s).

回答3:

ConfigParser parse UTF-8 file with BOM(xef xbb xbf)

    u = open("setting.ini").read().decode("utf-8-sig").encode("utf-8")
    fp = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
    fp.write(u)
    fp.seek(0)

    conf = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
    conf.readfp(fp)

回答4:

You didn't include streamer.conf, but from the error message, it's not in the right format. configparser is used for parsing "INI" files:

[section1]
setting1 = value
setting2 = value

[section2]
setting3 = value
setting1 = value

etc.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39831956/missingsectionheadererror-file-contains-no-section-headers-configparser

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python

python-2.7

configuration

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