From 1d6a91db003b86d06778e665a2cc4cc6fd410ae5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Mack <tmack@paris.CS.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] added is_ini() and is_xml()

---
 sfa/util/config.py | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sfa/util/config.py b/sfa/util/config.py
index 499ab1f5..1ac97539 100644
--- a/sfa/util/config.py
+++ b/sfa/util/config.py
@@ -48,9 +48,11 @@ DO NOT EDIT. This file was automatically generated at
             try:
                 self.config.read(filename)
             except:
+                print "normal read failed" 
                 if filename.endswith('.xml'):
                     self.load_xml(filename)
                 else:
+                    print "loading shell"
                     self.load_shell(filename)
             self._files.append(filename)
             self.set_attributes()
@@ -117,6 +119,24 @@ DO NOT EDIT. This file was automatically generated at
     def validate_type(self, var_type, value):
         return True
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def is_xml(config_file):
+        try:
+            x = Xml(config_file)
+            return True     
+        except:
+            return False
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def is_ini(config_file):
+        try:
+            c = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
+            c.read(config_file)
+            return True
+        except:
+            return False
+
+
     def dump(self, sections = []):
         sys.stdout.write(output_python())
 
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