On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:40:55PM -0400, Carsten Haese wrote: > Nick Stinemates wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:50:56AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> How about this? >>> >>> for line in file: >>> # ignore lines without = assignment >>> if '=' in line: >>> property, value = line.strip().split( '=', 1 ) >>> property = property.strip().lower() >>> value = value.strip() >>> >>> # do something with property, value >>> >>> Malcolm >> This works until you have: >> string=The sum of 2+2=4 > > Actually, it still works, because Malcolm used split()'s maxsplit > parameter. > > -- > Carsten Haese > http://informixdb.sourceforge.net > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Didn't see that -- Nick Stinemates ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://nick.stinemates.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list