On Thursday, November 6, 2014 12:41:10 PM UTC-5, Peter Otten wrote: > Tim wrote: > > > hi, I have strings coming in with this format: > > > > '[one=two, three=four five, six, seven=eight]' > > > > and I want to create from that string, this dictionary: > > {'one':'two', 'three':'four five', 'six':True, 'seven':'eight'} > > > > snip > > Not everything has to be a one-liner ;) If it works I don't think something > > >>> s = '[one=two, three=four five, six, seven=eight]' > >>> def fix(pair): > ... key, eq, value = pair.partition("=") > ... return key.strip(), value if eq else True > ... > >>> dict(fix(t) for t in s.strip("[]").split(",")) > {'three': 'four five', 'seven': 'eight', 'one': 'two', 'six': True} > > is particularly inelegant. Are you sure that your grammar is not more > complex than your example, e. g. that "," cannot occur in the values?
hi Peter, I definitely wouldn't say that is inelegant :-) I had never used the partition method and I didn't realize (or maybe remember) that strip could take a string of characters, not just one. Oh yes, I am positive about the grammar--no commas are allowed in the values. I think your solution is pretty elegant. Thanks for your help! --Tim -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list