Re: Extract lines from file, add to new files

Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> writes:       how to specify a

variable in one file that has its values in another file.

  In the first file, you can write

variable = eval( open( "otherfile" ).read() )

  , and the value for "variable" will be taken from "otherfile".

$ echo 3.14 >otherfile
$ echo "v = eval( open( 'otherfile' ).read() ); print( v )" > thisfile
$ python3 thisfile
3.14
$