On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Here's more detail. What I was hoping for was something like: > > exec "=" dcon > > This is fictitious of course, but would mean assign the values in [1] to > [0]. > Yes, it would be easy to loop and assemble elements into a string that would > be executed by exec (or eval), or use some assignment line like your > example. > > I have 30 or more of such assignments, and I would prefer not to have to > write them as assignments. The end purpose here is to produce a config file, > assign initial values, and change values. For example, the (text) file might > look initially like: > long 120.00 > lat 39.00 > year 2009
Do you know about the ConfigParser module? http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html > These would be written to the file by looping through dcon. Another time, I > might want to initialize these variables within the program, in the form > self.long = 120.00, etc., Ok, that is different than long = 120.00 because the variable is an attribute of self. Try this, it will take all the items in dcon and set them as attributes of self: for key, value in dcon: setattr(self, key, value) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
