🔒 Inserting a section of text in a quite particular spot

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Hi @cold tendon, looks like the bot zapped your message

Hi, here again, last little bit of this program that's giving me a headache. For Prepar3D aircraft liveries, there needs to be an entry in the aircraft.cfg. I have that file as well as the section that needs to go in, but can't figure out a way to get it there.

The file seemed to be structured well for configparser, but it throws an error at the slashes used for comments/decoration. The file is attached here, the entry I need to add is another one of those [fltsim.x] near di beninging along with all the keys within. It needs to go in as the last of the fltsim entries, with the index to match.

[cold tendon]

Thanks!

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!paste

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[soft ice]

You can use this instead

[cold tendon]

Alright, thank you!

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also please paste the full error message and your code

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https://paste.pythondiscord.com/LWEQ

  File "PMDG Livery Installer.py", line 102, in <module>
  File "configparser.py", line 761, in read
  File "configparser.py", line 1077, in _read
  File "configparser.py", line 1105, in _read_inner
  File "configparser.py", line 1129, in _handle_rest
configparser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: 'C:\\Program Files\\Lockheed Martin\\Prepar3D v5\\SimObjects\\Airplanes\\PMDG 747-400\\aircraft.cfg', line: 1
'/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\n'
[PYI-12244:ERROR] Failed to execute script 'PMDG Livery Installer' due to unhandled exception!```

I don't have the full code at the moment since I tried to figure out some other way avoiding configparser but it didn't work out

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https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html#supported-ini-file-structure

Configuration files may include comments, prefixed by specific characters (# and ; by default [1]). Comments may appear on their own on an otherwise empty line, possibly indented.
Looks like // is not supported for comment syntax

[cold tendon]

Yep, that's the main issue

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https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html#configparser.ConfigParser looks like there's a comment_prefixes parameter here

[cold tendon]

If I can get it to accept slashes I think it'll work

Thanks for the pointer, I'll check it out!

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Best possible thing happened, it crashed while trying to print a success message :D

It's inserting it at the end, doing it like this

ac_cfg['fltsim.'+str(ind)] = config_reg['fltsim.x']```
where ```ac_cfg``` is the configparser from the full aircraft.cfg and ```config_reg``` is the section that goes in

ind is just the next number in line for the fltsim entries

Is there any way to choose where a new section goes?

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