parse a normal textfile

[Tino Wildenhain]

devi thapa wrote:
> hi all
>  
>            I have one normal text file. I need to parse the file, that 
> too in an associative way .
> suppose that below is the normal textfile
> 
> name='adf'
> id  =1
> value=344
> 

there are many approaches to config files. But
in your special example, it looks like a simplified
mapping, so

parsed=eval("dict(%s)" % ",".join(line
                              for line
                              in file("textfile")
                              if line.strip()
                                  )
             )

 >>> parsed['name']
'adf'

but of course eval() is dangerous, so feel free to
explore more then this one solution.

Regards
Tino

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