[Baypiggies] Reading k=v format files

[David Berthelot]

The module ConfigParser in the standard library could be of help since it
seems to do exactly this:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Alex Martelli via Baypiggies <
baypiggies at python.org> wrote:

> with open(authfile) as af:
>   return dict(line.strip().split('=',1) for line in af)
>
> is a 2-liner equivalent. I don't know how to make it a one-liner (except
> by removing the newline after the ':', but that's not PEP8-y:-).
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> wrote:
>
>> I have a file providing settings for both a shell script and a python
>> program.  It looks like this:
>>
>> Foo=bar
>> Foo2=baz
>>
>> and so on.  I'm looking for a short snippet (I hope for a one liner) to
>> grok the file and return a dictionary of the settings.  Trivial, you
>> say?  Yes, but this is not the first time I feel this need, and each
>> time I find myself rewritting basically the same ditty:
>>
>> def grok_auth(authfile):
>>     result=dict()
>>     with open(authfile) as af:
>>         for line in af:
>>             k, v = line.strip().split('=', 1)
>>             result[k] = v
>>     return result
>>
>> There must be a better, batteries based way.  Right?
>>
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