lightweight human-readable config?

[John Roth]

"Maxim Khesin" <max at cNvOiSsiPoAnMtech.com> wrote in message
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>
> Nick Vargish wrote:
> > "John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >>for line in inFile.readlines():
> >>    key, value = line.split(":")
> >>    configdict[key] = value
> >
> >
> > for line in inFile.readlines():
> >     key, value = line.split(':', 1)  # only split once, values could
>
> Just one comment: using ':' for separator is not a great idea if Windows
> paths are come of the potential values.

That's why the "1" as the second parameter. It makes sure that
split doesn't do more than one split.

John Roth
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