Tino Dai wrote:
>  Hi Everybody,
>  
>       Before I start reinventing the wheel, is there any code out there 
>  for parsing configuration filesn in paragraph format. I am creating a 
>  multi-process monitor that will read in a configuration file that will 

If you have control over the config file format you can use ConfigParser 
in the standard lib. It reads .ini style files so you would write
[apache]
process=/usr/bin/httpd
...etc

You could also use one of the add-on config file readers which have more 
features, for example
http://voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#configobj

Another option is to make your config file be a Python module that you 
just import. What you wrote is pretty close to dictionary syntax. You 
could use this:
config = dict(
   apache = dict(
     process = '/usr/bin/httpd',
     # etc
   )
)

The syntax is not quite as user friendly but reading it is as easy as 
'import config'

Kent
>  contain the processes that they will monitor also what to do when they 
>  get get an alert. Below is an example of what I envision the configure 
>  file to look like
>  
>  apache {
>     process=/usr/bin/httpd
>     processNum = 8
>     whenDown = "Apache is totally down"
>     whenDegraded = "Apache has degraded (one or more processes has gone away"
>     whenUp = "Apache is up"
>     severityDown=1
>     severityDegraded=3
>     severityUp=5
>     .... etc ....
>  }
>  
>  Thanks in advance,
>  Tino
>  
>  
>  
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