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Convert INI configuration files to structured YAML with dotted sections nested and value types inferred.
This converter turns INI configuration into structured YAML 1.2, nesting dotted section names like [database.primary] into a real hierarchy and inferring booleans, integers and floats from the text values. Because INI has no formal specification, it follows the de facto rules of Python's configparser and git config: = and : both work as delimiters, ; and # start comments, and the last duplicate key wins with a warning. It is built for developers migrating legacy INI config into YAML for Docker Compose, Kubernetes, CI pipelines or modern app frameworks.
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Dotted sections such as [database.primary] become nested YAML maps instead of flat keys.
true/false, integers, floats and empty values become YAML types — or switch it off to keep everything as strings.
A repeated key follows the common last-wins rule, and every override is listed so nothing changes silently.
Each [section] becomes a YAML mapping key with its key=value pairs nested under it, and keys written before any section stay at the top level. With nesting enabled, a dotted name like [database.primary] becomes database: primary:, giving you a real hierarchy YAML tools can query.
Yes, when type inference is on: true and false become booleans, 8080 becomes an integer, 2.5 becomes a float and an empty value becomes null. Values wrapped in quotes always stay strings, and ambiguous text such as 007 or yes is left as a string rather than guessed.
The last occurrence wins, matching what Python's configparser does with strict=False and what most INI readers do in practice. This converter additionally reports every overridden key with its line number, so a duplicate never slips through unnoticed.
Yes — Python's configparser accepts both by default, so this converter does too, splitting each line at the first = or : it finds. Full-line comments can start with either ; (the classic INI marker) or #.
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