The Config Parser module is for extracting data from and writing to a specific format of file, generally known as a config file. As explained in the documentation, a config file is in the same format as .ini files frequently found on windows - especially used by older software.
It is a very handy file format for all sorts of jobs, more so on Linux these days than Windows, probably. However, it isn't much use for your particular need as described here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > I am a newbie and I just saw a ongoing thread on Fileprocessing which > talks abt config parser. > I have writen many pyhton program to parse many kind of text files by > using string module and regex. But after reading that config parser > thread I feel stunned. > > Can somebody tell me some intro info how to parse huge data (most of > them are input data to application softwares like nastran, abaqus etc) > > Recently I saw a great work by John on Nastran file parser (i am still > trying to understand the program, > http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/svn/phd/python/Data/Nastran/ > > An example of dat may be like this, (part of) > (say point id coordinateSysNo x,y,z ...) > GRID 1 12478.0 0.0 256.75 1 > GRID 2 12357.25 0.0 256.75 1 > GRID 3 12357.25 0.0 199.0 1 > (say Elementtype id property point1 point 2 point3 point4 etc) > CQUAD4 7231 21 5691 5700 5701 56920.0 > > CQUAD4 7232 21 5692 5701 5702 56930.0 > > CQUAD4 7233 21 5693 5702 5703 56940.0 > > the data file is very complex if i consider all complexities) > > Is is possible to use config parser module insome way for this. I also > have few perl parser (for some part for some particular tasks) and now > changing them to python. (I feel perl regex combination is very easy to > learn and very powerfull) > > Any information will be appreciated. > > -jiro -- Dale Strickland-Clark Riverhall Systems www.riverhall.co.uk We're recruiting Python programmers. See web site. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
