import configparser import os from pathlib import Path from typing import Dict # We read a configuration file for university setup that is located # in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/university-setup/config.cfg # We follow standard configparser procedure def get_config_file(): if 'XDG_CONFIG_HOME' in os.environ.keys(): xdg_config_home = Path(os.environ['XDG_CONFIG_HOME']).resolve() else: xdg_config_home = Path('~/.config').expanduser().resolve() config_file = xdg_config_home / 'university-setup' / 'config.cfg' if not config_file.exists(): config_file.parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True) config_file.write_text( '# Automatically generated default config file for university-setup\n' '# Edit this as you wish\n' '\n' '[Subprocess]\n' 'terminal = i3-sensible-terminal' ) print(f'Initialized default config file at {str(config_file)}.') print(config_file) return config_file def get_config(section_name: str = 'Subprocess') -> Dict: parser = configparser.RawConfigParser() parser.read(get_config_file()) if section_name in parser: return dict(parser[section_name]) else: return {} def terminal() -> str: d = get_config('Subprocess') if 'terminal' in d.keys(): return d['terminal'] else: return 'i3-sensible-terminal'