> > And I assume you are reading these into a Person class and
> > storing these classes in a persons dictionary?
> Can you explain this a little more for me please?
Sure.
(I didn't notice this on gmane so apologies if others already answered)
> The current way of reading the data is this:
>
> parser = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
> parser.read(personFile)
>
> def get_info(person)
> infoDic = {}
> infoDic['first'] = parser.get(person, 'firstName')
> infoDic['last'] = parser.get(person, 'lastName')
> infoDic['father'] = parser.get(person, 'father')
> infoDic['mother'] = parser.get(person, 'mother')
> return infoDic
TYhis is almost the same but you are using a dict. A sligtly more readable
version is to define a class Person:
class Person:
def __init__(self, parser):
self.first = parser.get(person, 'firstName')
self.last = parser.get(person, 'lastName')
self.father = parser.get(person, 'father')
self.mother = parser.get(person, 'mother')
Now you can create your person records with:
parser = ConfigParser.ConfifgParser()
parser.read(personFile)
people = {}
# some kind of loop here?
# for record in parser...
p = Person(parser)
people[p.first,p.last] = p
Now you will have a dictionary full of persons and you can access them
by the first,last tuple of their name.
BUT how is father/mother stored? Is it a first/last tuple or some ID number?
If an ID you need to add that to your Person definition and use it as the
people key.
Does that help?
Alan G.
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