import commands from ConfigParser import ConfigParser import os import sys def use_version(version): target_str = 'tidb_version = ' + version + '\n' new_file = '' file = open('inventory.ini', 'r') for line in file: if 'tidb_version' in line: new_file += target_str else: new_file += line file.close() os.remove('inventory.ini') file = open('inventory.ini', 'w') file.write(new_file) file.close() use_version(sys.argv[1])