rh0dium wrote: > I have a file which I need to parse and I need to be able to break it > down by sections. I know it's possible but I can't seem to figure this > out. > > The sections are broken by <> with one or more keywords in the <>. > What I want to do is to be able to pars a particular section of the > file. So for example I need to be able to look at the SYSLIB section. > Presumably the sections are > > > <SYSLIB> > Sys Data > Sys-Data > asdkData > Data > <LOGLVS> > Data > Data > Data > Data > <SOME SECTION> > Data > Data > Data > Data > <NETLIST> > Data > Data > Data > Data > <NET>
Given your description, pyparsing doesn't feel like the correct tool: secs = {} for L in file("foo.txt", "rU"): L = L.rstrip("\n") if re.match(r"<.*>", L): name = L[1:-1] secs[name] = [] else: secs[name].append(L) -- Giovanni Bajo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list