How to eval a file

[Björn Lindberg]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> file contains:
> 
> log     /error.txt
> splash  /welcome.png
> icon    ./prism.ico
> login   C:/prism/user.dbm
> cabinet C:/prism/patient.dbm
> 
> and you parse it with:
> 
>     lines = [ line.split() for line in open(filename) ]
>     self.__dict__.update(dict(lines))
> 
> or something like that?

I think this is a better solution as well. If you use the shlex module
to parse it you will get handling of quoting for free. The shlex
module will separate your file into tokens for you, and quoted text is
considered one token. very convenient.


Björn