Sounds like you want to use the ConfigObject module. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#configobj
-dave "RFQ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, I'm struggling here to do the following with any success: > > I have a comma delimited file where each line in the file is something > like: > > PNumber,3056,Contractor,XYZ Contracting,Architect,ABC Architects,... > > So each line is intended to be: key1,value1,key2,value2,key3,value3... > and each line is to be variable in length (although it will have to be > an even number of records so that each key has a value). > > I want to read in this csv file and parse it into a list of > dictionaries. So each record in the list is a dictionary: > > {"PNumber":"3056","Contractor":"XYZ Contracting", ... } > > I have no problem reading in the CSV file to a list and splitting each > line in the file into its comma separated values. But I can't figure > out how to parse each resulting list into a dictionary. > > Any help on this? > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
