On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I'm about to provide a config file for an application I've been working > with.
> I suspect there may be a standard way of doing this in Python that relies on > more complex operations that simplify matters than just reading the file one > line at a time. Dictionaries? Comments? One possibility is to put the settings in a dictionary and use the pickle module to save and restore the dict. This is pretty simple. The pickled file is not particularly readable, though. http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html Another way is to use a .ini file. The ConfigParser module can read ini files but not write them. http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html There are add-on modules that implement read-write ini files, for example http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
