Multiple configuration files with Python ConfigParser

Question

When calling ConfigParser.read you are allowed to pass a list of strings corresponding to potential locations for configuration files and the function returns a list of those files that were successfully read.

What is the default behaviour when multiple configuration files are loaded that have overlapping sections/keys? Do later files in the list override values parsed by earlier ones? Is the entire section overridden or just conflicting keys?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4029946/multiple-configuration-files-with-python-configparser

Answer 1

After getting around to testing it, ConfigParser overwrites the keys with each successive file, the order in which the files are read is determined by the order of the file names in the list passed to ConfigParser.read