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[Aahz Maruch]

In article <1266159968-30845431 at hypernet.com>,
Gordon McMillan <gmcm at hypernet.com> wrote:
>Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>>
>>   If that's it, there are a couple of ways to do it.  The one that
>> probably makes the most sense is to change the systax of the file and
>> use the ConfigParser module to parse an .ini type file:
>>
>>   Another, more painful approach, but which allows the specific
>> format you describe, would be to write your own parser for it.  You
>> can use the tokenize module to help out with tokenization, but it's
>> up to you to do the actual parse.  Chances are good John Aycock's
>> tools would really help out.
>
>Isn't that the kind of parsing that shlex is good at? I'm inclined to
>think that John's (highly capable, wonderful, etc. etc.) tools are bit
>more than is required here.

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