reading files into dicts
Fuzzyman
fuzzyman at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 03:40:21 EST 2005
ConfigObj is good - it (effectively) turns a dictionary into an ini
file, and vice versa.
There is also built in support for type conversion.
See http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html
See the ConfigPersist module which has functions to use ConfigObj for
data persistence. It explains the limitations.
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configpersist.html
Basically you can store and retrieve dictionaries, lists, strings,
integers, floats and booleans. You can nest dictionaries - but you
can't nest dictionaries in lists. All the keys must be strings - but
the module/article suggests a way round that, at the expense of
readability of the resulting text file.
All the best,
Fuzzyman
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