Re: Problem with loading textfiles into dictionaries.

2005-01-30 Thread mercuryprey
Yeah I kind of want to 'reinvent' the pickle and I am aware of that. The problem for me is that the output that pickle dumps to a file is too 'cryptic' as I want the ability to edit the corresponding textfile directly and easily, so I'm going for an own way. But yes, Kartic and you were basically

Problem with loading textfiles into dictionaries.

2005-01-30 Thread mercuryprey
Hello, I want to do the following: def do_load(self, arg): sitefile = file('sitelist', 'r+', 1) while True: siteline = sitefile.readline() site_rawlist = siteline.split() sitelist[site_rawlist[0]] = site_rawlist[1:] if len(siteline) == 0: break I want to load a textfile into a dictionaries and us

Re: Disassembling strings and turning them into function parameters

2005-01-30 Thread mercuryprey
Hey, that's exactly what I need! Thanks for your help, the others too of course :) Didn't expect to get answers so quickly.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Disassembling strings and turning them into function parameters

2005-01-30 Thread mercuryprey
Hi, I'm pretty new to Python, to programming overall...so how would I make something where the user inputs multiple words in a string - like "connect 123.123.123.123 21 user password" or similar, and then I can split this string up to pass these arguments to a function like ftp_connect(ip, port, us