reading raw variables from file

[Francesco Guerrieri]

On Nov 30, 2007 5:57 AM, Astan Chee <stanc at al.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a file that might contain literal python variable statements at
> every line. For example the file info.dat looks like this:
> users = ["Bob", "Jane"]
> status = {1:"ok",2:users[0]}
> the problem is I want to read this file and load whatever variables
> written in it as normal python variable statements so that when i read
> the file, my users var will be ["Bob","Jane"] and my status var will be
> {1:"ok",2:users[0]} . Is there an easy way of doing this instead of
> parsing the files and checking said types?


A much safer approach would be to use Yaml, which provides safely and
easily the requested feature
Give a look at:
http://pyyaml.org/

bye,
francesco