On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:21:00 -0700, Dean McClure wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering how I can get the items() command from ConfigParser to > not resort all the item pairs that it presents. > > I am trying to get it to read some data in order: > > [Relay Info] > relay_name: IPC > relay_current_range: [60, 64, 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100, 104, > 108, 112, 116] > relay_current_mutliplier: [1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2, 4] > relay_i: arcfc/(relay_current_range*relay_current_mutliplier)
Do you realize multiplier is mispelled? > so I can input the data and then eval() the equation at the end Just what the world needs, another code injection vulnerability. http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/#CWE-78 I really hope you can trust the source of the INI file. > but when > I go > config.items('Relay Info') > It mixes everything up, is there a way to stop this? Not in Python 2.5 or older. > Here is my selection code > > variables = sorted(config.items('Relay Info')) #Get inputs from user for > each variable > for variable in variables: > if variable[0] == 'relay_name': > vars()[variable[0]] = variable[1] > else: > vars()[variable[0]] = 'not a real thing this is just a fake that will never turn up to establish the variable' > if variable[1][0] == '[' and variable[1][-1] == ']': > if variable[0] != 'Any': > while (variable[1].count(vars()[variable [0]]) < 1): > vars()[variable[0]] = raw_input (str(variable)[1:-1] + "\n") if > variable[1].count(vars()[variable [0]]) < 1: > print 'Setting unavailable' > else: > vars()[variable[0]] = raw_input(str (variable)[1:-1] + "\n") > else: > vars()[variable[0]] = variable[1] > vars()[variable[0]] = float(eval(vars()[variable[0]])) Are we supposed to understand that? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
