create/access dynamic growth list

[Larry Bates]

sam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a configuration file need to be processed (read/write) by python.
> Currently I the following method can only read and store data that
> python read a line from a configuraiton file:
>  def _parse (self):
>         # parse message
>         m = self.FWShow_Command.match (conf_data)
>         if (m == None):
>             raise FW_Command.Error ("corrupt macro definition")
> 
>         # store generic data
>         macro = {}
>         macro["key"] = m.group (1)
>         macro["value"] = m.group (2)
> 
>         return (conf_data, macro)
> 
> Since there are unknown number of lines in a configuration file, I want
> to store the array of "macro" in a list.
> How can I do that in Python?
> 
> Thanks
> Sam.
Pretty sketchy description, but I'll take a shot.

fp=open(conf_data, 'r')
macro_lines=fp.readlines()
fp.close()

After this macro_lines will be a list with one line per element
such that macro_list[0] is the first line, macro_list[1] the
second, etc.

Larry Bates