Configurations

Configurations are what’s returned from the the parsers. They are instances of kutils.dicts.AttrDictDict, which have the following properties in this module:

• attempting to read a non-existent section returns an empty dictionary.
• attempting to read a non-existent key returns an empty string.

This is because of a conscious design choice to avoid throwing exceptions for missing sections; typically, the author handles this with

def defaulted(value, default):
        if len(value) is not 0:
                return value
        return default

Otherwise, they behave exactly like dict``s, and can be used anywhere a ``dict can.