provides the TextFile class, which gives an interface to text files
that (optionally) takes care of stripping comments, ignoring blank
lines, and joining lines with backslashes."""
"""Provides a file-like object that takes care of all the things you
commonly want to do when processing a text file that has some
line-by-line syntax: strip comments (as long as "#" is your
comment character), skip blank lines, join adjacent lines by
escaping the newline (ie. backslash at end of line), strip
leading and/or trailing whitespace. All of these are optional
and independently controllable.
Provides a 'warn()' method so you can generate warning messages that
report physical line number, even if the logical line in question
spans multiple physical lines. Also provides 'unreadline()' for
implementing line-at-a-time lookahead.
Constructor is called as:
TextFile (filename=None, file=None, **options)
It bombs (RuntimeError) if both 'filename' and 'file' are None;
'filename' should be a string, and 'file' a file object (or
something that provides 'readline()' and 'close()' methods). It is
recommended that you supply at least 'filename', so that TextFile
can include it in warning messages. If 'file' is not supplied,
TextFile creates its own using 'io.open()'.
The options are all boolean, and affect the value returned by
strip_comments [default: true]
strip from "#" to end-of-line, as well as any whitespace
leading up to the "#" -- unless it is escaped by a backslash
lstrip_ws [default: false]
strip leading whitespace from each line before returning it
rstrip_ws [default: true]
strip trailing whitespace (including line terminator!) from