Writing different sections into a file

Mon Apr 25 11:12:59 EDT 2016

On 25/04/2016 17:00, justin walters wrote:
> 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
>>>>>> --
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>>> 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.

Great ideas!