setconf

Setconf is a small utility for changing settings in configuration textfiles.

It has no dependencies except the built-in Python modules.

Pull requests are welcome.

Compile time features

• It can be compiled to native with nuitka. Try these parameters: --exe --lto --python-version=2.7

TODO

• A flag for changing the n'th occurence.
• A cleaner way to handle arguments, without adding an external dependency.
• A flag for commenting out keys (adding "# ")
• A flag for removing a value instead of using ''.
• A flag for removing both the key and the value.
• Rewrite in a different language?
• Optimize the code that is used for adding options with -a.
• A way to add an option with -a after a given string occurs.
• Test and fix the combination of -a and multiline markers.
• Fix the behavior when " is the multiline marker and : the delimiter (the yml format).
• Document which assignment symbols and comment markers are supported.
• Refactor.
• Support both #define and %define (ref asmttpd).
• When changing settings in JSON files, a line may look like this: "go.formatTool": "gofmt",. Add a flag for being able to set the key and value without having to specify the quotes and the final comma.

Changes from 0.7.6 to 0.7.7

• Apply fix for trailing newlines by @zappolowski (issue #16).
• Also test with Python 3.8.

Changes from 0.7.5 to 0.7.6

• Add test cases.
• Allow uncommenting keys without providing a value.
• Update documentation.

Changes from 0.7.4 to 0.7.5

• Can now uncomment configuration options with the -u flag.
• Uncommenting and setting values also works on Linux kernel configuration (#CONFIG_KERNEL_XY is not set to CONFIG_KERNEL_XY=y).

Changes from 0.7.3 to 0.7.4

• Correctly formatted help text.

Changes from 0.7.2 to 0.7.3

• Can change single-line #define values by using the -d flag.

Changes from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2

• Fixed an issue that only happened on Python 3.2.
• Several minor changes.

Changes from 0.7 to 0.7.1

• Removed a dependency on chardet

Changes from 0.6.8 to 0.7

• Fix issue #6, a failing testcase for +=.

Changes from 0.6.7 to 0.6.8

• Deal mainly with bytes instead of strings.
• Handle ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) better, for Python 3.

Changes from 0.6.6 to 0.6.7

• Can use floating point numbers together with += and -=

Changes from 0.6.5 to 0.6.6

• Fixed a problem with files without newline endings

Changes from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5

• Can now use += or -= for increasing or decreasing integer values

Changes from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4

• Better error messages when write permissions are denied

Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3

• Fixed a problem with -a that occurred when a key existed but was commented out
• Added regression test

Changes from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2

• Now runs on Python 2 and Python 3 (tested with 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3)

Changes from 0.6 to 0.6.1

• Fixed a problem with the -a option
• Creates the file when -a or --add is given, if needed

Changes from 0.5.3 to 0.6

• Made -a add options only when not already present

Changes from 0.5.2 to 0.5.3

• Made it compile with the latest version of shedskin
• Added an option -a for adding keys/values to a file

Changes from 0.5.1 to 0.5.2

• Fixed a problem with ascii/utf-8 encoding

Changes from 0.5 to 0.5.1

• Fixed a problem with => assignments
• Changed the way files are opened with open()
• Added more tests relating to ascii/utf-8

Changes from 0.4 to 0.5

• Add support for => as well
• Fixed a bug where comments were not ignored for multiline values
• New logo

Changes from 0.3.2 to 0.4 (released)

• Ignored configuration options that are commented out

General information

• License: GPL2
• Author: Alexander F. Rødseth