Sorry Alan, I think I might have accidentally replied to only you. Love your Python Projects book btw! Working through it now.
I've looked at, and played with a bit, ConfigParser and yes, it seems that may be a better idea, thank you. I still have the issue of how to get the path into my code, regardless of whether I use ConfigParser or What I've tried (none worked): > file = open(rd1, 'r') > This should have worked. What happened when you tried it? "Did not work" is a tad vague! Traceback (most recent call last): File "21FileMonitor.py", line 28, in <module> file = open(rd1, 'r') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Documents/MyScripts/fileMonitor/log.txt' Should I not be using os.path or somesuch? If my path to the file, as provided via ConfigParser, is rd1, would I do: file = os.path.open(%s, 'r') % (rd1) or file = os.path.open(rd1, 'r') or do I not need os.path... Kind of lost in the woods here. regards, Richard On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: > On 28/05/15 18:39, richard kappler wrote: > > I've created a config file which the user would edit named >> fileMonitor.conf: >> >> # line two is the absolute path to the log you are parsing data from >> # keep 'rdfile:' as is, path starts after it, no spaces >> rdfile:Documents/MyScripts/fileMonitor/log.txt >> # line 4 is the absolute path to the log you are appending the parsed data >> too >> # keep 'wrtfile:' as is, path starts after it, no spaces >> wrtfile:Documents/MyScripts/fileMonitor/newlog.txt >> > > You should maybe look at the config parser module and > use a standard file format. You are likely to be adding > more entries into this file... > > and I have written up a script that reads the paths and strips off the >> unusable bit named readConfig.py: >> >> # read the config file to get file locations for a script >> conf = open('fileMonitor.conf', 'r') >> read_it = conf.read() >> >> for line in read_it.splitlines(): >> > > You should consider using something like > > with open('fileMonitor.conf', 'r') as conf: > for file in conf: > > Rather rthan reading/splitting the file in memory. > > rd1 = rd.replace('rdfile:',"",1) >> wrt1 = wrt.replace('wrtfile:',"",1) >> >> This worked fine, if I print rd1 and wrt1 I get just the paths that are >> entered into the conf file. >> >> file = open('log.txt', 'r') >> >> but I need to replace 'log.txt' with rd1 (path and file name to log.txt). >> >> What I've tried (none worked): >> file = open(rd1, 'r') >> > > This should have worked. > > What happened when you tried it? "Did not work" is a tad vague! > > > -- > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld > Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- Windows assumes you are an idiot…Linux demands proof. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor