[Zope] reading text based config file

[Casey Duncan]

"Thomas B. Passin" wrote:
> 
> Do a split on the ':'.  It will give you a list containing the three parts.
> 
> [Marcus Schopen]
> 
> what's the best way to read a flat file like this line by line and split
> each line to three variables?
> 
> 1:menuname:url
> 1.1:submenuname:url
> 1.2:submenuname:url
> 2:nenuname:url
> 2.1:sub
> ...
> 

import string

def readconfig(path):
  f = open(path)
  vars = []
  for line in f.readlines():
    vars.append(string.split(line,':'))
  f.close()
  return vars

You could also use regular expressions, which might be faster, just
harder to read.

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| Kaivo, Inc.
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