all Python 3until 3.12Removed from the standard libraryterm

configparser.SafeConfigParser

removed

Old name of the ConfigParser class for reading INI files. Removed in Python 3.12; use configparser.ConfigParser instead.

Syntax

configparser.SafeConfigParser()  # до 3.12

Python 2 had three parsers: RawConfigParser, ConfigParser with unsafe interpolation, and SafeConfigParser with the fixed one. In Python 3.2 the "safe" behaviour became the plain ConfigParser and SafeConfigParser turned into an alias; it was deprecated and removed in 3.12. How to rewrite: configparser.SafeConfigParser() becomes configparser.ConfigParser(); the rest of the code (read(), get(), getint(), %(name)s interpolation) stays the same. While at it, replace readfp() with read_file(): it was removed in the same change.

Examples

# Python 3.12+
import configparser
try:
    configparser.SafeConfigParser()
except AttributeError as e:
    print(type(e).__name__)  # → AttributeError

# Python 3.12+
import configparser
cp = configparser.ConfigParser()
cp.read_string('[db]\nhost = localhost\nurl = %(host)s:5432\n')
print(cp.get('db', 'url'))  # → localhost:5432

import configparser
cp = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
cp.read_string('[db]\nport = 5432\n')
print(cp.getint('db', 'port'))  # → 5432

See also

Common errors

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