Python Tips for Beginners. Regex, dictionaries, etc.?

Question

I am writing my second python script to try to parse the contents of a configuration file and would like to get noob advice. I'm not sure if it is better to use regex to parse my script from its few lines? I also read about dictionaries and wondered if this would be good practice. I'm not necessarily looking for the code by simply clicking in the right direction.

Example: My configuration file is as follows.

Job {
  Name = "host.domain.com-foo"
  Client = host.domain.com-fd
  JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
  FileSet = "local"
  Write Bootstrap = "/etc/foo/host.domain.com-foo.bsr"
  Pool = storage-disk1
  }

Should I use regex, line splitting, or maybe a module? If I had several tasks in my configuration file, would I use a dictionary to correlate the task with the pool?

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Answer 2

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config.py

job = {
  'Name' : "host.domain.com-foo",
  'Client' : "host.domain.com-fd",
  'JobDefs' : "DefaultJob",
  'FileSet' : "local",
  'Write Bootstrap' : "/etc/foo/host.domain.com-foo.bsr",
  'Pool' : 'storage-disk1'
}

yourscript.py

from config import job

print job['Name']

Answer 3

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Job = { "Name" : "host.domain.com-foo",
        "Client" : "host.domain.com-fd",
        "JobDefs" : "DefaultJob",
        "FileSet" : "local",
        "Write BootStrap" : "/etc/foo/host.domain.com-foo.bsr",
        "Pool" : "storage-disk1" }

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[Job]
Name=host.domain.com-foo
Client=host.domain.com-fd
JobDefs=DefaultJob
FileSet=local
Write BootStrap=/etc/foo/host.domain.com-foo.bsr
Pool=storage-disk1

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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