Question

Trying python after a very long time now.

I have a file that has a line:

My_NUMBER                 =  24

I want to extract this number ( here I have assumed 24 but this is something I want to extract based on My_NUMBER.In my python code I am able to read the line

with open(filename) as f: lines = f.read().splitlines()

for line in lines:
    if line.startswith(' My_NUMBER                 ='):
        line=(line.rsplit(' ', 1)[0])
        num= line.rsplit('=',1)[1].split("=")[0]
        num = num.strip(" ")
        print num

However this does print blank output and not the number. Can anyone commet in case I am doing anything obviously wrong here?

Answer 1

for line in lines:
    if line.startswith(' My_NUMBER                 ='):
        num = line.split('=')[-1].strip()
        print num