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From: Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Using 'with open(...) as ...' together with
 configparser.ConfigParser.read
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:41:13 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-30, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> writes:
>> As per the docs you link to, the read() method only takes filename(s)
>> as arguments, if you have an already-open file you want to read then
>> you should use the read_file() method instead.
>
> As you and others have pointed out, this is indeed covered in the docs,
> so mea culpa.
>
> However, whereas I can see why you might want to read the config from a
> dict or a string, what would be a use case in which I would want to
> read from an open file rather than just reading from a file(name)?

The ConfigParser module provides read(), read_file(), read_string(),
and read_dict() methods. I think they were just trying to be
comprehensive. It's a bit non-Pythonic really.