[Tutor] Retriving previous user inputs in a gui

[Karim]

Correction indents disappear (sic !) and lines are inverted (my mistake too)
  :o):

def sourceConfigGui(mySourceFile,path_to_mysourcefile):
         import sys
         sys.path.append(path_to_mysourcefile)
         import mySourceFile

Karim

On 08/24/2010 09:28 PM, Karim wrote:
>
> Ok I find a solution (need to test it) that seems correct:
>
> Suppose we have a python file mySourceFile with this setting:
>
> EntryTextName = "myName"
> EntryTextMail   = "myMail at gmail.com"
>
> In the calling script or main python file we could define a function 
> sourceConfigGui as follow:
>
> def sourceConfigGui(mySourceFile,path_to_mysourcefile):
>
> import mySourceFile
> import sys
> sys.path.append(path_to_mysourcefile)
>
>
> If you have any other solution to source a external py file let me know.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> On 08/24/2010 08:21 PM, Karim wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Alan for your answer.
>> In fact I want to do it in python format.
>> I want to source it (I will declare it each
>> input as a python variable).
>> I don't want to parse it. I just want to source it
>> like an external file in bash for example.
>> Is there a way to not use string evaluation. But really load it
>>  as python setting file inside python program.
>>
>> PS: ConfigParser, hum very good , this could be of use for other part...
>>
>> Karim
>>
>> On 08/24/2010 08:03 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
>>> "Karim" <karim.liateni at free.fr> wrote
>>>
>>>> I am figuring this out. I want a sort of file who store values 
>>>> entered previously in a gui.
>>>
>>> Thats easy enough - have you succeeded with this bit - check the
>>> file with a text editor...
>>>
>>>> Th e next time the user launch his gui in the same directory the 
>>>> gui load the previous value from this file.
>>>
>>> Again thats pretty easy, did you get this working - create the file
>>> with a text editior?
>>>
>>>> Is there any modules in Tkinter for that?
>>>
>>> No, Tkinter is for building GUIs. Python core language includes
>>> functions for reading and writing to files. Can you do this outside 
>>> a GUI?
>>>
>>> Write a program to read the users name and save it to a file.
>>> Write a program to read the file and print the name it finds.
>>> Write a program that says Hello <name> if it finds a name and asks 
>>> for a name if it doesn't.
>>>
>>> Now translate that to your GUI.
>>>
>>>> suppose the file could
>>>> be in xml format or whatever?
>>>
>>> Yes, it could be in whatever. CSV, XML, ConfigParser or even plain 
>>> text.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>
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