Sphinx Python ConfigParser

[Christian Rost]

Hi,

I want to write my documentation with Sphinx and in my file I am using ConfigParser to set different variables out of a config file.

When referencing a function in my Python file from Sphinx it is always throwing an error.

This is the extract from the code as an example:

config_ini = configparser.ConfigParser()
config_ini.read(os.path.abspath("config.ini"))

VIP_SW = config_ini['VIP']['SW']

And I get the following error: 

WARNING: autodoc: failed to import function 'get_HW_version' from module 'QNX_Testclient_TCP'; the following exception was raised:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\crost\OneDrive - Visteon\01_Projects\09_Scania\01_DDU_CDC_2023\24_SW\99_Flash\10_Testing\lib\site-packages\sphinx\ext\autodoc\importer.py", line 60, in import_module  
    return importlib.import_module(modname)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 850, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "C:\Users\crost\OneDrive - Visteon\01_Projects\09_Scania\01_DDU_CDC_2023\24_SW\99_Flash\10_Testing\QNX_Testclient_TCP.py", line 20, in <module>
    VIP_SW = config_ini['VIP']['SW']
  File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\configparser.py", line 963, in __getitem__
    raise KeyError(key)
KeyError: 'VIP'

Has anybody an idea on how to solve it?

Thx.

Chris