Thanks to all for the suggestions - I am going to give them a try this afternoon. I am still fairly new to Python, so this will definitely be a good learning experience. :)
Maric Michaud wrote: > Le mercredi 12 juillet 2006 17:00, D a écrit : > > 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.. > > If you don't want to rely on third party libraries, and want a human-readable > format I'll suggest using csv file format : > > and this way ? > > In [47]: class Z(object) : > ....: def __init__(self, val) : self.val = val > ....: > ....: > > In [48]: lst = [Z(i) for i in range(2) + [ str(e) for e in range(2) ] ] > > In [49]: [ (e, e.val) for e in lst ] > Out[49]: > [(<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c252c>, 0), > (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c27ac>, 1), > (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c23ac>, '0'), > (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c23ec>, '1')] > > In [51]: csv.writer(file('config.csv', 'w')).writerows([ > (type(i.val).__name__, i.val) for i in lst]) > > In [52]: print file('config.csv').read() > int,0 > int,1 > str,0 > str,1 > > > In [53]: l = [ Z(eval(class_)(val)) for class_, val in > csv.reader(file('config.csv')) ] > > In [54]: [ (e, e.val) for e in l ] > Out[54]: > [(<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c218c>, 0), > (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c260c>, 1), > (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c256c>, '0'), > (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c25cc>, '1')] > > > > > -- > _____________ > > Maric Michaud > _____________ > > Aristote - www.aristote.info > 3 place des tapis > 69004 Lyon > Tel: +33 426 880 097 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list