Re: parse a normal textfile

[Lie Ryan]

On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:09:09 +0200, Tino Wildenhain wrote:

devi thapa wrote:

>hi all

I have one normal text file. I need to parse the file, that
too in an associative way .
suppose that below is the normal textfile

name='adf'
id =1
value=344

there are many approaches to config files. But in your special example,
it looks like a simplified mapping, so

parsed=eval("dict(%s)" % ",".join(line
for line
in file("textfile")
if line.strip()
)
)

>>parsed['name']

'adf'

but of course eval() is dangerous, so feel free to explore more then
this one solution.

Regards
Tino

There is no need to use eval on that, you could just use:

f = open('file.conf')
conf = {}
for line in f:
key, value = line.split('=', 1)
conf[key] = value

a bit more obscure:

conf = dict(line.split('=', 1) for line in open('file.conf'))