Editing File

[D]

Thanks to all for the suggestions - I am going to give them a try this
afternoon.  I am still fairly new to Python, so this will definitely be
a good learning experience. :)

Maric Michaud wrote:
> Le mercredi 12 juillet 2006 17:00, D a écrit :
> > Thanks, guys.  So overall, would it just be easier (and not too rigged)
> > if any changes were made by just editing the text file?  I want to do
> > this project the right way, but if it's going to be a big pain to
> > implement the edit function, just modifying the text file directly
> > isn't that big of a deal..
>
> If you don't want to rely on third party libraries, and want a human-readable
> format I'll suggest using csv file format :
>
> and this way ?
>
> In [47]: class Z(object) :
>    ....:     def __init__(self, val) : self.val = val
>    ....:
>    ....:
>
> In [48]: lst = [Z(i) for i in range(2) + [ str(e) for e in range(2) ] ]
>
> In [49]: [ (e, e.val) for e in lst ]
> Out[49]:
> [(<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c252c>, 0),
>  (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c27ac>, 1),
>  (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c23ac>, '0'),
>  (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c23ec>, '1')]
>
> In [51]: csv.writer(file('config.csv', 'w')).writerows([
> (type(i.val).__name__, i.val) for i in lst])
>
> In [52]: print file('config.csv').read()
> int,0
> int,1
> str,0
> str,1
>
>
> In [53]: l = [ Z(eval(class_)(val)) for class_, val in
> csv.reader(file('config.csv')) ]
>
> In [54]: [ (e, e.val) for e in l ]
> Out[54]:
> [(<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c218c>, 0),
>  (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c260c>, 1),
>  (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c256c>, '0'),
>  (<__main__.Z object at 0xa76c25cc>, '1')]
>
>
>
>
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