property file

[Larry Bates]

I would use ConfigParser from the standard library.
It supports sections, built in conversions, default
values, variable insertion, and writing of the
file (as well as reading).

-Larry Bates

"Neil Benn" <benn at cenix-bioscience.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.860.1086962012.6949.python-list at python.org...
> Hello,
>
>           One way that I have done this is to make a file with :
>
> <key>=<value>\n
>
>     Then open the file and use the following list comprehension to get
> back a dict with the properties in it :
>
> objFile = file('MyConfigurationFile.conf')
>
> dctConfiguration = dict([(key.strip(), value.strip()) \
>                          for (key,value) in [line.split('=') \
>                                              for line in objFile]])
>
>     It's not as simple as Properties in Java but you could wrap it in a
> class to copy the Java Properties class.  You could also add some
> intellegence to it so that it doesn't bomb out if the properties file is
> slightly wrong.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
> Mariano wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >Have someone any idea how create/read a property file as java property
file?
> >If not, is there some other solutions?
> >
> >Thank's in advance
> >
> >
>
>
> -- 
>
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>
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