input record seperator (equivalent of "$|" of perl)

[Keith Dart]

les_ander at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I know that i can do readline() from a file object.
> However, how can I read till a specific seperator?
> for exmple,
> if my files are
> 
> name
> profession
> id
> #
> name2
> profession3
> id2
> 
> I would like to read this file as a record.
> I can do this in perl by defining a record seperator;
> is there an equivalent in python? 
> thanks
> 

I don't think so. But in the pyNMS package 
(http://sourceforge/net/projects/pynms) there is a module called 
"expect", and a class "Expect". With that you can wrap a file object and 
use the Expect.read_until() method to do what you want.



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