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November 11, 2010 17:49
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Find a setting/variable assignment-looking-thing.
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| def find_setting(source, setting, unquote=True): | |
| re_setting = r'^\s*' + re.escape(setting) + r'\s*=\s*(.+)$' | |
| m = re.search(re_setting, source, re.M) | |
| if not m: | |
| return None | |
| value = m.group(1).strip() | |
| if unquote: | |
| if value.startswith("'") and value.endswith("'") or \ | |
| value.startswith('"') and value.endswith('"'): | |
| value = value[1:-1] | |
| return value |
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