state: bring back the function to read old evolvestate files
Before introduction of this nice cmdstate file wrapper, we had individual
methods to write data to evolvestate file. Let's bring back the function which
used to read data from the old evolvestae file so that we can use it in next
patch for BC purposes.
[flake8]
ignore =
#closing bracket does not match indentation of opening bracket's line
E123,
# closing bracket does not match visual indentation
E124,
# visually indented line with same indent as next logical line
E129,
# at least two spaces before inline comment
E261,
# too many leading '#' for block comment
E266,
# expected 2 blank lines, found 0
E302,
# expected 2 blank lines after end of function or class
E305,
# module level import not at top of file
E402,
# line too long (82 > 79 characters)
E501,
# do not assign a lambda expression, use a def
E731,
# class names should use CapWords convention
N801,
# line break occurred before a binary operator
W503
builtins=xrange, execfile