On 6/20/05, David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a file that contains lists -- python lists. sadly, these
> are not pickled. These are lists that were made using
> a simple print list statement.
Sad, indeed. But what kind of objects they held? Only ints? Ints and
strings? Arbitrary objects?
>
> Is there an easy way to read this file into a list again?
> I'm thinking I would have to
>
> read until char = '['
> read until char = " ' "
>
> Well, reading character by char until I have the list and then
> parse it all myself.
At least you can leave tokenizing to python lib:
>>> import tokenize, token, pprint
>>> token_names = dict([
... (value, name) for (name, value)
... in token.__dict__.iteritems()
... if isinstance(value, int)])
>>> tokens = tokenize.generate_tokens(
... iter(['[1, 2, "ab\'c,d"]']).next)
>>> pprint.pprint([(token_names[t[0]], t[1]) for t in tokens])
[('OP', '['),
('NUMBER', '1'),
('OP', ','),
('NUMBER', '2'),
('OP', ','),
('STRING', '"ab\'c,d"'),
('OP', ']')]
- kv
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