Re: Newbie question: string replace

2005-10-25 Thread davideugenewarren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a config file with the following contents: > service A = { > params { > dir = "c:\test", > username = "test", > password = "test" > } > } > > I want to find username and replace the value with another value. I > don't know what the username value i

Re: Searching date and and time from a text file

2005-11-14 Thread davideugenewarren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I am new in Python programming. Can anybody give me any idea about > how to detect more than one date and time (like 11/11/2005 , > 10-12-2006, 12:30 etc) from a text file and keep them in a list. http://docs.python.org/lib/bltin-file-objects.html http://docs.pytho

Re: semi-Newbie question

2006-08-10 Thread davideugenewarren
Do you absolutely need to use variables? A dictionary would serve if each case has a unique identifier. client_info_dict = {} for i in tagfile: tagname,scope,value = i.replace('"','').split(',') # split fields, strip redundant characters client_info_dict.setdefault(scope,{}) # set up a