Hi! Perhaps this could help you:
fileContent=open( "my/file/to/read", "r").readlines() for line in fileContent: print line.strip() # remove leading and trailing whitspace's incl. \n In the loop you could perhaps populate the entry-widgets. HTH Ewald on Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:22:06 +0000 Adam Cripps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adam Cripps > I'm writing an application which has rows of Entry fields (created in Adam Cripps > a loop - see previous thread; and thanks guys!). All the content of Adam Cripps > the Entry fields are accessed through self.contentlist[i].get() Adam Cripps > Adam Cripps > Now I'm trying to save the content of those fields in a friendly Adam Cripps > format. I've used pickle in the past, but experienced problems with Adam Cripps > pickling Tkinter widgets. Adam Cripps > Adam Cripps > I'm saving using this method :- Adam Cripps > Adam Cripps > for i in self.contentlist: Adam Cripps > saving = i.get() + "\n" Adam Cripps > f.write(saving) Adam Cripps > f.close() Adam Cripps > Adam Cripps > which creates a text file with each entry field separated with a "\n". Adam Cripps > Adam Cripps > What would be a good way to open this file and re-populate the entry Adam Cripps > fields with the content? I'm not sure how to parse the text according Adam Cripps > to the \n separator. Adam Cripps > Adam Cripps > Am I going down the right path here? Adam Cripps > Adam Cripps > TIA Adam Cripps > Adam ------------------- end ---------------------- -- Ing. Ewald Ertl HartterGruppe Phone : +43-3352-33085-558 trinomic Projektmanagement & Informationstechnik GmbH Fax : +43-3352-33085-600 Wiener Straße 41 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A-7400 Oberwart http://www.trinomic.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor