ReadConfig.py

import optparse
import os.path
import MySQLdb
from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
import sys

def config(sysargv):
	parser = optparse.OptionParser()

	parser.add_option('-c', '--config', help='the configuration file - default name [%default]', default='config.ini', action='store', type='string', dest='config')
	parser.add_option('-f', '--file', help='the corpus file - mandatory option', dest='corpus')

	(opts, args) = parser.parse_args(args = sysargv[1:])

	if opts.corpus is None:
		print 'A corpus file is needed as the input'
		parser.print_help()
		exit(-1)

	if not os.path.isfile(opts.config):
		print 'Coud not find', opts.config
		print 'Please chek your arguments.'
		exit(-1)

	configParser = SafeConfigParser()
	configParser.read(opts.config)

	dbConfig = {}
	dbConfig['dbHost'] = configParser.get('db_connect', 'host')
	dbConfig['dbUser'] = configParser.get('db_connect', 'username')
	dbConfig['dbPass'] = configParser.get('db_connect', 'password')
	dbConfig['dbSchema'] = configParser.get('db_connect', 'schema')
	dbConfig['dbCharset'] = configParser.get('db_connect', 'charset')
	dbConfig['dbUnicode'] = configParser.get('db_connect', 'useUnicode')

	dbTables = {}
	dbTables['MEDLINE'] = configParser.get('db_tables', 'MEDLINE')
	dbTables['PMC'] = configParser.get('db_tables', 'PMC')
	dbTables['MESH_MEDLINE'] = configParser.get('db_tables', 'MESH_MEDLINE')
	dbTables['MESH_PMC'] = configParser.get('db_tables', 'MESH_PMC')
	dbTables['CORPUS_TEXT_TABLE'] = configParser.get('db_tables','CORPUS_TEXT_TABLE')
	dbTables['CORPUS_TABLE'] = configParser.get('db_tables','CORPUS_TABLE')
	dbTables['SUPPL_MESH_TABLE'] = configParser.get('db_tables','SUPPL_MESH_TABLE')

	miscConfigs = {}
	miscConfigs['email'] = configParser.get('misc', 'email')
	miscConfigs['use_local'] = configParser.get('misc', 'use_local')

	return opts.corpus, dbConfig, dbTables, miscConfigs

config(sys.argv)

version = '0.1'