What about the syntax ? Will it have commas in the right place ?
(never, always, or sometimes ? - sometimes is much worse than never or
always).
*damn* - problem is that '{' might appear as one of the values....
*So*... read the file in as a list of lines and strip each line.
Dictionaries will always start where '{' is the first character. Anyway
- you could always explicitly check if each line ends with a ',' and if
it doesn't add one...)
(*warning* UNTESTED)
>handle = open('filename', 'r')
>thefile = handle.readlines()
>handle.close()
>
>dictindex = []
>i = 0
>while i < len(thefile)-1:
> if line.startswith('{'):
> dictindex.append(i)
> i += 1
>lastdict = ' '.join(thefile[dictindex[-1]:]
>print eval(lastdict)
Checking if each line ends with a ',' (except for the last line) should
be easy !
HTH
Regards,
Fuzzy
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