On 28/05/15 18:39, richard kappler wrote:
I've created a config file which the user would edit named fileMonitor.conf:
# line two is the absolute path to the log you are parsing data from
# keep 'rdfile:' as is, path starts after it, no spaces
rdfile:Documents/MyScripts/fileMonitor/log.txt
# line 4 is the absolute path to the log you are appending the parsed data
too
# keep 'wrtfile:' as is, path starts after it, no spaces
wrtfile:Documents/MyScripts/fileMonitor/newlog.txt
You should maybe look at the config parser module and
use a standard file format. You are likely to be adding
more entries into this file...
and I have written up a script that reads the paths and strips off the
unusable bit named readConfig.py:
# read the config file to get file locations for a script
conf = open('fileMonitor.conf', 'r')
read_it = conf.read()
for line in read_it.splitlines():
You should consider using something like
with open('fileMonitor.conf', 'r') as conf:
for file in conf:
Rather rthan reading/splitting the file in memory.
rd1 = rd.replace('rdfile:',"",1)
wrt1 = wrt.replace('wrtfile:',"",1)
This worked fine, if I print rd1 and wrt1 I get just the paths that are
entered into the conf file.
file = open('log.txt', 'r')
but I need to replace 'log.txt' with rd1 (path and file name to log.txt).
What I've tried (none worked):
file = open(rd1, 'r')
This should have worked.
What happened when you tried it? "Did not work" is a tad vague!
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