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diff --git a/fg21sim/configs/manager.py b/fg21sim/configs/manager.py
index ff950bb..2252e61 100644
--- a/fg21sim/configs/manager.py
+++ b/fg21sim/configs/manager.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import sys
import logging
from logging import FileHandler, StreamHandler
from functools import reduce
+import operator
import pkg_resources
from configobj import ConfigObj, ConfigObjError, flatten_errors
@@ -188,42 +189,45 @@ class ConfigManager:
config = self._config
return config.get(key, fallback)
- def getn(self, key, sep="/", from_default=False):
+ def getn(self, key, from_default=False):
"""Get the config value from the nested dictionary configs using
- a list of keys or a "sep"-separated keys strings.
+ a list of keys or a "sep"-separated keys string.
Parameters
----------
key : str, or list[str]
- List of keys or a string separated by a specific character
- (e.g., "/") to specify the item in the ``self._config``, which
+ List of keys or a string of keys separated by a the ``/``
+ character to specify the item in the ``self._config``, which
is a nested dictionary.
e.g., ``["section1", "key2"]``, ``"section1/key2"``
- sep : str (len=1), optional
- If the above "keys" is a string, then this parameter specify
- the character used to separate the multi-level keys.
- This parameter should be a string of length 1 (i.e., a character).
from_default : bool, optional
If True, get the config option value from the *default*
configurations, other than the configurations merged with user
configurations (default).
+ Raises
+ ------
+ KeyError :
+ The input key specifies a non-exist config option.
+
References
----------
- Stackoverflow: Checking a Dictionary using a dot notation string
https://stackoverflow.com/q/12414821/4856091
+ https://stackoverflow.com/a/12414913/4856091
"""
- if len(sep) != 1:
- raise ValueError("Invalid parameter 'sep': %s" % sep)
if isinstance(key, str):
- key = key.split(sep)
+ key = key.split("/")
#
if from_default:
config = self._config_default
else:
config = self._config
#
- return reduce(dict.get, key, config)
+ try:
+ return reduce(operator.getitem, key, config)
+ except (KeyError, TypeError):
+ raise KeyError("%s: invalid key")
def get_path(self, key):
"""Return the absolute path of the file/directory specified by the