Re: [Zope] reading text based config file

"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. -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan@kaivo.com `------------------>