D wrote: > Thanks, guys. So overall, would it just be easier (and not too rigged) > if any changes were made by just editing the text file? I want to do > this project the right way, but if it's going to be a big pain to > implement the edit function, just modifying the text file directly > isn't that big of a deal.. have you used pickle? if the data is as simple as you say it is, you will be able to read the pickle file. 2nd, it will be a lot less code really. You just load and unpickle the file into a variable. After any edit in the gui, repickle it to the same file. You would have to do the same if you edited the text file, except you would need a couple of lines code to parse the string, etc.
check here for a simple example : http://wiki.python.org/moin/UsingPickle > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > D wrote: > > > Hi, I currently have a Python app with a Tkinter GUI frontend that I > > > use for system administration. Everytime it launches, it reads a text > > > file which contains info about each host I wish to monitor - each field > > > (such as IP, hostname, etc.) is delimited by !!. Now, I want to be > > > able to edit host information from within the GUI - what would be the > > > best way to go about this? Basically I just need to either edit the > > > original host line, or write a new host line and delete the > > > original..thanks! > > > > Might be overkill - but pickle the data memeber that contains the > > information. If you use text instead of binary pickling it should > > still be editable by hand. for a single line of text it may be a bit > > much - but it's still probably quicker than opening a file, parsing > > etc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
