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feed2toot/confparsers/rss/ignoressl.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright © 2015-2019 Carl Chenet <carl.chenet@ohmytux.com>
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
+
+# Get values of the ignoressl option of the rss section
+'''Get values of the ignoressl option of the rss section'''
+
+# standard library imports
+import ssl
+
+def parseignoressl(config, ignore_ssl_from_cli):
+    '''Parse configuration values and get values of the feedparser section'''
+    section = 'rss'
+    option = 'ignore_ssl'
+    if config.has_option(section, option):
+        ignoressl = config.getboolean(section, option)
+    else:
+        ignoressl = ignore_ssl_from_cli
+    return ignoressl