[Fab-user] loading hosts from file or array.

2010-11-03 Thread Jeff Honey
Can anyone share some experience or practical examples of loading hosts (and/or roles) either from text file input or loaded dynamically into/out of arrays? Actually, I seem to remember that arrays are lists with Python...right? I'm looking to branch out a bit and stop hard-coding roles in my

Re: [Fab-user] loading hosts from file or array.

2010-11-03 Thread Jeff Forcier
Hi Jeff, A text file with host strings delimited by newlines could be simply loaded like so: with open('/path/to/file') as fd: env.hosts = [x.strip() for x in fd] # To clear out the trailing newlines Or you could load from a Web service spitting out the same sort of format: