Tim Arnold wrote:
Hi,
I've got some text to parse that looks like this
text = ''' blah blah blah
\Template[Name=RAD,LMRB=False,LMRG=True]{tables}
ho dee ho
'''
If you're going to include backslashes in the string literal then use a
raw string for safety.
I want to extract the bit between the brackets and create a dictionary.
Here's what I'm doing now:
def options(text):
d = dict()
options = text[text.find('[')+1:text.find(']')]
for k,v in [val.split('=') for val in options.split(',')]:
d[k] = v
return d
1. I'd check whether there's actually a template.
2. 'dict' will accept a list of key/value pairs.
def options(text):
start = text.find('[')
end = text.find(']', start)
if start == -1 or end == -1:
return {}
options = text[start + 1 : end]
return dict(val.split('=') for val in options.split(','))
if __name__ == '__main__':
for line in text.split('\n'):
if line.startswith('\\Template'):
print options(line)
is that the best way or maybe there's something simpler? The options will
always be key=value format, comma separated.
thanks,
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