On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 02:51 +0000, Phoe6 wrote: > On Jun 20, 10:35 pm, "John Krukoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there anyway, I can include multi-line value in the configfile? I > > > > > Following the link to RFC 822 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html) > > indicates that you can spread values out over multiple lines as long as > > there is a space or tab character imeediately after the CRLF. > > Thanks for the response. It did work! > > >>> config = ConfigParser() > >>> config.read("Testcases.txt") > ['Testcases.txt'] > >>> output = config.get("Information", "Testcases") > >>> print output > > tct123 > tct124 > tct125 > >>> output > '\ntct123\ntct124\ntct125' > >>> > > However, as I am going to provide Testcases.txt to be "user editable", > I cannot assume or "ask users" to provide value testcases surronded by > spaces. I got to figure out a workaround here.
Since you don't actually need a multi-line entry but rather a list of single-line entries, you could ask your users to enter something like this: TestcaseCount=3 Testcase1=tct123 Testcase2=tct124 Testcase3=tct125 HTH, -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
