I want to write some variables (user preferences, specifically) to a text file and then read the values from that file.
Here is my code to write the data: verbosemodes= """ Detailed = "-vv" Basic = "-q" """ file = open('prefs', 'w') file.writelines(verbosemodes) file.close() And here is my code, in a separate module, to read the file and display the variable values: readfile = open('prefs').readlines() for line in readfile: print line print Basic Running the second module yields this error: Detailed = "-vv" Basic = "-q" Traceback (most recent call last): File "readprefs.py", line 6, in <module> print Basic NameError: name 'Basic' is not defined Clearly the data is getting read (the lines are being printed), but the variable itself ("Basic") is not being initialized properly. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here--can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list