"""
This module is responsible for handling configuration and files related to it,
including calibration parameters.
"""

import configparser
from os import path
import syslog


"""
Default options
"""
#TODO: more default options...
_CONFIG_DEFAULTS = {
      "general": {
          "poll_interval": 10,
          "averaging_time": 9,
      },

      "calibration" : {
        "sensor_min_value" : 0,
        "sensor_max_value" : 1024,
      },

    }

"""
Initialize a configparser dictionary with given or default filename and
return it
"""
def get_config_dict(filename = None):

  if filename is None:
    cfg_path = path.dirname(__file__)
    filename = path.join(cfg_path, "config.ini")

  cp = configparser.ConfigParser() #_CONFIG_DEFAULTS)

  # read default values from dict if they are not given in the config file.
  cp.read_dict(_CONFIG_DEFAULTS)

  syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "config: Using configuration file " + filename)
  cp.read(filename)

  return cp

  #def __getitem__(self, i): self.configparser.


if __name__ == "__main__":
  import argparse

  ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
  ap.add_argument("-c", "--config",
      dest = "config_file",
      help = "use CONFIG_FILE as the configuration file instead of the default")

  args = ap.parse_args()

  cfg = get_config_dict(args.config_file)
  print(str(cfg))

"""
This module is responsible for handling configuration and files related to it,
including calibration parameters.
"""

import configparser
from os import path
import syslog


"""
Default options
"""
#TODO: more default options...
_CONFIG_DEFAULTS = {
      "general": {
          "poll_interval": 10,
          "averaging_time": 9,
      },

      "calibration" : {
        "sensor_min_value" : 0,
        "sensor_max_value" : 1024,
      },

    }

"""
Initialize a configparser dictionary with given or default filename and
return it
"""
def get_config_dict(filename = None):

  if filename is None:
    cfg_path = path.dirname(__file__)
    filename = path.join(cfg_path, "config.ini")

  cp = configparser.ConfigParser() #_CONFIG_DEFAULTS)

  # read default values from dict if they are not given in the config file.
  cp.read_dict(_CONFIG_DEFAULTS)

  syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "config: Using configuration file " + filename)
  cp.read(filename)

  return cp

  #def __getitem__(self, i): self.configparser.


if __name__ == "__main__":
  import argparse
  from pprint import pprint

  ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
  ap.add_argument("-c", "--config",
      dest = "config_file",
      help = "use CONFIG_FILE as the configuration file instead of the default")

  args = ap.parse_args()

  cfg = get_config_dict(args.config_file)

  for sec in cfg.sections():
    print("{}:".format(sec))
    pprint(list(cfg[sec].items()))
    print("")

Print configuration contents in main.
Print configuration contents in main.
