[PLUG] python boggle

[Russell Johnson]

I'm trying to read the content of a file to specify the name of a server to a python script. If I set the variable directly, it works fine If I read the file, the script fails with a 'can't find server' error. 

Setting the hostname directly is easy enough:

SERVER_NAME = fqdn.domain.net

That works fine... Adding a print to the script prints the appropriate hostname.

If, however, I try to read the filename from a file, I get what amounts to a host not found error:

f1 = open('/path/to/file', 'r')

SERVER_NAME = f1.read()
f1.closed

And again, printing the variable prints the correct hostname, but when the script attempts to access the host, it can't find the host. 

Ideas? 

Russell Johnson
russ at dimstar.net