Question

I feel my recently gained knowledge is still not sufficient when it comes to string processing. Please help me solve the below problem statement:
(Please note:This is the simpler version of my requirement)

So.. I have a file (myoption) with content as below:

day=monday,tuesday,wednesday
month=jan,feb,march,april
holiday=thanksgiving,chirstmas

My python script should be able to read the file and process the read info such that in the end i have three list variables as below:

day --> ['monday','tuesday','wednesday']
month --> ['jan','feb','march','april']
holiday --> ['thanksgiving','christmas']

Please note:
As per my requirement, the format for contents in myoption file should be simple.
Hence You are free to modify the format of ‘myoption’ file without changing the content – This is to give you some flexibility.

Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

If you use the standard ConfigParser module your data would need to be in INI file format, and so would look something like this:

[options]
day = monday,tuesday,wednesday
month = jan,feb,march,april
holiday = thanksgiving,christmas

And then you could read the file as follows:

import ConfigParser

parser = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
parser.read('myoption.ini')
day = parser.get('options','day').split(',')
month = parser.get('options','month').split(',')
holiday = parser.get('options','holiday').split(',')