reading dictionary's (key,value) from file

[ankitks.mital]

Folks,
Is it possible to read hash values from txt file.
I have script which sets options. Hash table has key set to option,
and values are option values.

Way we have it, we set options in a different file (*.txt), and we
read from that file.
Is there easy way for just reading file and setting options instead of
parsing it.

so this is what my option files look like:

1opt.txt
{ '-cc': '12',
'-I': r'/my/path/work/'}

2opt.txt
{ '-I': r/my/path/work2/'}

so my scipt how has dictionary
options = { '-cc' :'12'
'-I': r'/my/path/work/:/my/path/work2/'}

I am trying to avoid parsing

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Folks,
Is it possible to read hash values from txt file.
I have script which sets options. Hash table has key set to option,
and values are option values.

Way we have it, we set options in a different file (*.txt), and we
read from that file.
Is there easy way for just reading file and setting options instead of
parsing it.

so this is what my option files look like:

1opt.txt
{ '-cc': '12',
'-I': r'/my/path/work/'}

2opt.txt
{ '-I': r/my/path/work2/'}

so my scipt how has dictionary
options = { '-cc' :'12'
'-I': r'/my/path/work/:/my/path/work2/'}

I am trying to avoid parsing

Use a well-known config-file-format such as the module ConfigParser
supports.

Diez

 

[Robert Bossy]

Folks,
Is it possible to read hash values from txt file.
I have script which sets options. Hash table has key set to option,
and values are option values.

Way we have it, we set options in a different file (*.txt), and we
read from that file.
Is there easy way for just reading file and setting options instead of
parsing it.

so this is what my option files look like:

1opt.txt
{ '-cc': '12',
'-I': r'/my/path/work/'}

2opt.txt
{ '-I': r/my/path/work2/'}

so my scipt how has dictionary
options = { '-cc' :'12'
'-I': r'/my/path/work/:/my/path/work2/'}

I am trying to avoid parsing

For this particular case, you can use the optparse module:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-optparse.html

Since you're obviously running commands with different set of options, I
suggest you listen to Diez.

Cheers,
RB

 

[ankitks.mital]

For this particular case, you can use the optparse module:http://docs.python.org/lib/module-optparse.html

Since you're obviously running commands with different set of options, I
suggest you listen to Diez.

Cheers,
RB- Hide quoted text -

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I think I am missing lot regarding optparser module. My only option is
to have option file, and I have couple of those..each user creates
it's own. How can optparser help me in this regard

Thank you

 

[Terry Reedy]

You can use execfile (or exec, in 3.0) function to execute code in a file
in the present context.

 

[Raymond Hettinger]

Folks,
Is it possible to read hash values from txt file.
I have script which sets options. Hash table has key set to option,
and values are option values.

Way we have it, we set options in a different file (*.txt), and we
read from that file.
Is there easy way for just reading file and setting options instead of
parsing it.

so this is what my option files look like:

1opt.txt
{ '-cc': '12',
  '-I': r'/my/path/work/'}

2opt.txt
{  '-I': r/my/path/work2/'}

so my scipt how has dictionary
options = { '-cc' :'12'
                '-I': r'/my/path/work/:/my/path/work2/'}

I am trying to avoid parsing

With minimal changes, you can just import the files:

opt1.py
------
opts = { '-cc': '12',
'-I': r'/my/path/work/'}


opt2.py
------
opts = { '-I': r/my/path/work2/'}


main.py
-------
from opts1 import opts as opt1
from opts2 import opts as opt2


Raymond