I've to use ConfigParser. It returns values that are exactly in the config file, so get string variables like: int1 with quotes and characers: "42" this is easy to convert to int: realint = int(int1)
I've read the tutorial, and the FAQ, and not sure if I missed it, but other than calling eval (which everyone says is unsafe), I don't know if there is another way to do this: string1 has "this is a string" or however complex a string (""" aaa """). I can do realstring = eval(string1) or if there is list1 = "[ 'filea', 'fileb', ]", I can get at list by doing: reallist = eval(list1) is there an easier/simpler method of doing the same thing as realstring and reallist lines above? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list