def read_config_file()

in scancode/scanCode.py [0:0]

• 18 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def read_config_file(file, gitignore_file):
    """Read in and validate configuration file."""
    try:
        print_highlight(MSG_READING_CONFIGURATION % file.name)
        # Provide for sections that have simply values (not key=value)
        config = configparser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True)
        # This option prevents options from being normalized to lowercase
        # by allowing the raw string in the config. to be passed through
        config.optionxform = str
        if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
            config.readfp(file)
        else:
            config.read_file(file)
        read_license_files(config)
        read_path_inclusions(config)
        read_path_exclusions(config, gitignore_file)
        read_scan_options(config)
        read_regex(config)
    except Exception as e:
        print_error(e)
        return -1
    return 0