On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net > wrote:
> Here's the print from the code line below. > > Second line from the top. > There it is - stop_time is a str at this point in the program, so has no strftime attribute or method. Step back through your code and see why... I find Control-F very helpful in situations like this! > > Regarding, ConfigObj, I was aware of it when I decided to go this route. > That's the one that uses has an init file like Windows? Rather than have to > go through a learning process on it (the Win init module/object), and some > uncertainty about it's acceptability in my situation, I thought I'd be more > exploratory and proceed as I have. So far it has paid off in many learning > dividends. ConfigObj, if not the Win stuff, may be attractive. Anyway, I'd > like to proceed for the moment with this effort. > There's nothing sacred about the ".ini" extension - any text file that contains "variable = value" pairs is game. ConfigObj is not Windows-centric. The advantage - which is what I was trying to show when I posted that gosh-awful hunk of code - is that you can define the format of the file in one central section of your program - it could even be a separate module if you wanted - and in one swell foop you tell ConfigObj the name of the variable, its type, acceptable values or range, and a default value in case it's missing. Opening, reading, closing, writing, validating - all handled. I certainly wouldn't want to dissuade you from writing your own as a learning exercise - I'm glad I did - but each time I need to update one of my old programs that still uses my homegrown ConfigFile, that's the first thing I re-factor. -- www.fsrtechnologies.com
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