Greetings,
I have a script that gets a little info from the user, using a
dictionary, which I then store in a file via cPickle. This pickle
concept must be good for something, but I haven't figured out exactly
what just yet. At any rate, I would like to now get the code and be
able to display only one value for the user.
I thought I could do this by specifying a key in orginfo. However,
the function throws all the data to stdout, not just the desired key.
How can I limit the output to just the value of the key I want to
reference? Do I need to create a for or while loop, or an if
statement to say, "extract this key:value pair only"?
I can also get this from a SQL query, but since I couldn't do it with
a file, I wanted to try and figure it out. The book, "Learning
Python" is very helpful, now that I have it, but it kind of breezed
past this kind of thing. I really would like to understand how to
work with the data in the text file.
### function def ###
def org_Get_Info():
orgGdata = open('orgdata.txt', 'r')
orginfo = cPickle.load(orgGdata),
orgGdata.close()
print orginfo['Name'] # this is really all I want.
### Output at DOS prompt ###
Organization Name: ocf # Begin input
Address: 6123
City: char
State: nc
Zip: 282
City : char # Begin output from org_Get_Info()
State : nc
Name : ocf
Zip : 282
Address : 6123
ocf # this is all I want - not the rest.
Thanks,
Don
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