On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:50:56AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How about this?
>
> for line in file:
> # ignore lines without = assignment
> if '=' in line:
> property, value = line.strip().split( '=', 1 )
> property = property.strip().lower()
> value = value.strip()
>
> # do something with property, value
>
> Malcolm
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This works until you have:
string=The sum of 2+2=4
For cases where such input my be expected, I use the following regex
import re
str = """a=b
c=d
e=f
string=The sum of 2+2=4""".split("\n")
p = re.compile("([^=]*)=(.*)")
for lines in str:
key,value=p.findall(lines)[0]
print key, value
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