On Jul 26, 10:18 pm, Kenneth Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to Python, but not programming. I would like to start my > Python career by developing programs according to the "best practices" > of the industry. Right now, that appears to be unit tests, patterns, > and source code control.
I am not sure about "best", but one of my "favourite practices" is to not re-write code that other people have written, and have released under licenses that allow you to do anything with it. > So, I am trying to write a unit test for some code that reads a Windows > style INI file and stores the section, key, and values in a dictionary So, in the standard library: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ConfigParser.html And if you want a more involved approach: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html Ali -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list