ConfigParser.NoSectionError: No section: 'Default'

[degenaro]

I'm stuck. If I try to add an option to section Default I get the below error. But I also get an error when I try to first add section Default. Please advise.

#!/usr/bin/env python import ConfigParser config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() section = 'Default' option = 'foo' value = 'bar' config.set(section, option, value)

Output:
... raise NoSectionError(section) ConfigParser.NoSectionError: No section: 'Default'

[ljmetzger]

Try code like the following. Please note that you are using Python 2.

For Python 3 'ConfigParser.' becomes lower case 'configparser.' (configparser dot) and import ConfigParser becomes import configparser

'Default' must be 'DEFAULT' (all caps)
You can also use ConfigParser.DEFAULTSECT

Python 2 code follows:

# Reference: https://python-forum.io/Thread-ConfigParser-NoSectionError-No-section-Default # Reference Python 2: https://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html # Reference Python 3: https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html # The following is Python 2 code import ConfigParser config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() section = "DEFAULT" option = 'foo' value = 'bar' config.set(section, option, value) section = ConfigParser.DEFAULTSECT option = 'foo2' value = 'bar2' config.set(section, option, option) section = "DEFAULT" foo_value = config.get(section,'foo') foo_value = config.get(section,'foo') print("section {} foo_value = {}".format(section, foo_value)) foo2_value = config.get(section,'foo2') print("section {} foo2_value = {}".format(section, foo2_value)) section = 'xyz' option = 'abc' value = 'abcbar' config.add_section(section) config.set(section, option, value) option = 'abc2' value = 'abcbar2' config.set(section, option, value) foo_value = config.get(section,'abc') print("section {} foo_value = {}".format(section, foo_value)) foo2_value = config.get(section,'abc2') print("section {} foo2_value = {}".format(section, foo2_value)) print("Done")

Output:
section DEFAULT foo_value = bar section DEFAULT foo2_value = foo2 section xyz foo_value = abcbar section xyz foo2_value = abcbar2 Done

Python 3 code follows (output is identical):

# Reference: https://python-forum.io/Thread-ConfigParser-NoSectionError-No-section-Default # Reference Python 2: https://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html # Reference Python 3: https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html # The following is Python 2 code import configparser config = configparser.ConfigParser() section = "DEFAULT" option = 'foo' value = 'bar' config.set(section, option, value) section = configparser.DEFAULTSECT option = 'foo2' value = 'bar2' config.set(section, option, option) section = "DEFAULT" foo_value = config.get(section,'foo') foo_value = config.get(section,'foo') print("section {} foo_value = {}".format(section, foo_value)) foo2_value = config.get(section,'foo2') print("section {} foo2_value = {}".format(section, foo2_value)) section = 'xyz' option = 'abc' value = 'abcbar' config.add_section(section) config.set(section, option, value) option = 'abc2' value = 'abcbar2' config.set(section, option, value) foo_value = config.get(section,'abc') print("section {} foo_value = {}".format(section, foo_value)) foo2_value = config.get(section,'abc2') print("section {} foo2_value = {}".format(section, foo2_value)) print("Done")

Lewis