ConfigParser & converting strings to lists
Edward K. Ream
edream at tds.net
Sat Jun 22 22:33:00 EDT 2002
> > so it is strings of the form "['file1' 'file2' ...]" that must be
> > converted to a list of strings.
>
> >>> s = "['file1' 'file2' '...']"
> >>> [x[1:-1] for x in s[1:-1].split()]
> ['file1', 'file2', '...']
>
> Does that do it?
I'm not sure. Here is what I did:
s = config.get(section,"recentFiles")
files = [x[1:-1] for x in s[1:-1].split()]
Is this what you intended? This doesn't work for me: it "doubles" every
backspace.
I am already regretting trying to be clever. It is easy enough to set
file individual filenames like this:
for i in xrange(len(files)):
config.set(section, "file"+`i`, files[i])
and to get up to n file names like this:
try:
for i in xrange(n):
files.append(config.get(section, "file" + `i`))
except: pass
This is bulletproof: filenames can contain any character at all. The
only drawback is that the config file looks like:
[recent files]
file0 = filename0
file1 = filename1
...
But this isn't so bad, is it?
Edward
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