Question re ConfigParser

loial jldunn2000 at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 21 10:53:39 EDT 2008


On 20 Aug, 13:49, alex23 <wuwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 20, 5:34 pm, loial <jldunn2... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Given a section like
>
> > [Data]
> > value1
> > value2
> > value3
>
> > Can ConfigParser be easily used to put the values in a dictionary? If
> > so, how?
>
> Dictionaries are key/value pairs. Do you expect 'value1' to be a key
> or a value?
>
> If the data is literally as you describe, and not key/value entries
> (such as 'key1: value1' or 'key1=value1'), you would probably be
> better off just stepping through the file, testing for the [data]
> section and then reading the following lines into a list.

Thanks. Thats what I did in the end



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