Writing different sections into a file

Mon Apr 25 11:00:05 EDT 2016

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:04 AM, Karim <kliateni at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 25/04/2016 09:30, Palpandi wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>> I need to write different sections into a file.
>> At any point of time, content can be added to any section.
>>>> I don't want keep each section into a temporary file.
>> What is the better way to store the contents of each section and write
>> them into a file at the end?
>> What is the better datatype to achieve this?
>>>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Palpandi
>>>> Use Stringio:
> -
>> from cStringIO import StringIO
>> content = StringIO()
>> # Header
> content.write('; Header\n')
> content.write('; Body'\n)
> content.write('; Footer\n')
>> open('my_file', 'wb').write(content.getvalue())
>> -
> Karim
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All of the other answers are great too. I was thinking that you could
format the text file to have dividers for each section. For instance it may
look something like this:
Header
Lorem ipsum....
<--->
Body
Lorem ipsum...
<--->
Footer
Lorem ipsum..
Then, you could create a list of sections like so:
file = open('file.txt', 'r').read()
section_list = file.split('<--->')
print(section_list[0])
>>>Header
Lorem ipsum...
Say you wanted to get really fancy, you could even format the file to have
named sections like so:
<section name="Header">
 <content>Lorem ipsum...</content>
</section>
<section name="Body">
 <content>Lorem ipsum...</content>
</section>
<section name="footer">
 <content>Lorem ipsum...</content>
</section>
Then you can use the xmlparser library to parse the file into an xml object.
Alternatively, you could also use JSON formatting:
{
 sections: {
 header: {
 title: "header",
 content: "Lorem ipsum..."
 },
 body: {
 title: "Body",
 content: "Lorem ipsum..."
 },
 footer: {
 title: "Footer",
 content: "Lorem ipsum..."
 }
 }
}
I hope this helps.