[Tutor] newbie: Reading text file

[Alan Gauld]

"Preecha Bundrikwong" <preecha88 at gmail.com> wrote

> I have a text file (mylist.py actually), it contains exactly below:
> ---------------
> # file mylist.py
> jobs = [
>        'Lions',
>        'SysTest',
>        ]
> ----------------
>
> I want to write another script and get the list "jobs" from the 
> above
> script.

Because this is a python file and python files are effectively
modules you can use import:

import mylist
print mylist.jobs

> Is it possible for me to get the variable 'jobs' and its value from 
> the file
> (as a list)? What I'm trying to do now is open the file, readlines 
> in a
> loop, once it finds the line with "jobs = [", then start accumulate 
> (append)
> a varible until it hits the line with "]" then stop.

If it wasn't a python file (some other language say) then that is
exactly what you would need to do. Programming often makes
apparently simple things seem complicated! :-)

Alan G.