Re: reading raw variables from file

On Nov 30, 2007 5:57 AM, Astan Chee <stanc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I have a file that might contain literal python variable statements at
every line. For example the file info.dat looks like this:
users = ["Bob", "Jane"]
status = {1:"ok",2:users[0]}
the problem is I want to read this file and load whatever variables
written in it as normal python variable statements so that when i read
the file, my users var will be ["Bob","Jane"] and my status var will be
{1:"ok",2:users[0]} . Is there an easy way of doing this instead of
parsing the files and checking said types?


A much safer approach would be to use Yaml, which provides safely and
easily the requested feature
Give a look at:
http://pyyaml.org/

bye,
francesco
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