Tackle if trying to set a configuration value not found in the config file

If a section was missing in the config file when being set from the command
line, an exception would occur.  In these cases, create the section
"on-the-fly" in the configuration object.

Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rteval/rtevalConfig.py b/rteval/rtevalConfig.py
index 4d7ba17..631007b 100644
--- a/rteval/rtevalConfig.py
+++ b/rteval/rtevalConfig.py
@@ -219,8 +219,15 @@ class rtevalConfig(object):
             k = sk.split('___')
             if k[0] != last_sect:
                 # If the section name changed, retrieve the section variables
-                sect = self.GetSection(k[0])
+                try:
+                    sect = self.GetSection(k[0])
+                except KeyError:
+                    # If section does not exist, create it
+                    self.AppendConfig(k[0], {k[1]: v})
+                    sect = self.GetSection(k[0])
+
                 last_sect = k[0]
+
             setattr(sect, k[1], v)