On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:09:09 +0200, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> devi thapa wrote:
>> hi all
>>
>> I have one normal text file. I need to parse the file, that
>> too in an associative way .
>> suppose that below is the normal textfile
>>
>> name='adf'
>> id =1
>> value=344
>>
>>
> there are many approaches to config files. But in your special example,
> it looks like a simplified mapping, so
>
> parsed=eval("dict(%s)" % ",".join(line
> for line
> in file("textfile")
> if line.strip()
> )
> )
>
> >>> parsed['name']
> 'adf'
>
> but of course eval() is dangerous, so feel free to explore more then
> this one solution.
>
> Regards
> Tino
There is no need to use eval on that, you could just use:
f = open('file.conf')
conf = {}
for line in f:
key, value = line.split('=', 1)
conf[key] = value
a bit more obscure:
conf = dict(line.split('=', 1) for line in open('file.conf'))
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