executing a variable?

[Greg Krohn]

The ConfigParser module is what you want. If you are familiar with Windows
.ini files, it works a lot like those.

import ConfigParser

cf1 = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
cf1.add_section('MAIN')
cf1.set('MAIN', 'spam', 'foo')
cf1.set('MAIN', 'eggs', 'bar')
cf1.write(open('settings.text', 'w'))

cf2 = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
cf2.read('settings.text')
print 'spam is ' + cf2.get('MAIN', 'spam')
print 'eggs is ' + cf2.get('MAIN', 'eggs')



greg

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"Jeremy Whetzel" <lists at toadmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm playing around with a script that creates a "settings" file to be
> loaded the next time the program is run.  Currently what I have is a
> settings file that is just a number of variables defined:
>
> spam = "foo"
> eggs = "bar"
>
> ... and so on...
>
> Then I do something like:
>
> settings = open("settings.text","r")
> line1 = settings.readline()
> line2 = settings.readline()
>
> ... and so on...
>
> now I have these variables that contain the whole line of 'spam =
> "foo"'.  Is there anyway I can "execute" these variables so that they
> actually perform the instructions inside them?  If I try to " print
> spam", I get NameError spam.
>
> OR, if there is a better way of doing this, please point me in the
> correct direction.  I'm extremely new to python, and only slightly less
> so with shell scripting (to give you an idea of my programming prowess).
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Jeremy