On 10/27/07, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is the infies are also being used in a shell scripted > environment, they are frequently updated and cannot be changed. > > So ideadly I could just define a function which sourced the file, assuming > the variable names passed in the *args list. So, yes, I know the names, they > just haven't been set in the program. I would like the source program to > then define them. My re is not so great, but I'm assuming the statement > here: > > cmd = '\n'.join([re.sub( r'^([^=]+)=(.*)$', r"\1='\2'", v) for v in > lines]) > > assumes the pattern VAR[i]=variable , and then makes it Python friendly. > > So it would look like: > > my_source(fid,['STN_id','STNlat','STNlon','STNelv']) > > then in the program, before exec(cmd) the *args list has to be converted > into empy lists, preparing it for the cmd. Does that make sense?? > > Thanks! > >
the re expression just changes "lvalue=rvalue" to "lvalue='rvalue'". It doesn't know whether lvalue is array or something else. Anyway, you can initialize the variables as follows - for v in ['STN_id', ... ] : exec( 'global %s ; %s = [0]*5' % (v, v)) Unfortunately these variable need to be made global for them to be visible everywhere. HTH Aditya
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