"Stefan Lesicnik" <ste...@lsd.co.za> wrote
I have a file that has text in a certain format. Lets assume
'''
name: stefan
id: 12345
color: blue
name: joe
id: 54321
color: red
'''
The format is predictable. I understand for non predictable text, you
would
have to use pyparser or the like to build a match.
There are lots of ways to do this, I might use a class which takes
an open file and reads the three lines and extracts the data as
part of the contructor... Untested pseudo code:
class Item(object):
def __init__(self, aFile):
data = aFile.readline().strip().split(:)
setattr(self, data[0], data[1])
items = []
f = open('myfile.txt')
while f:
items.append(Item(f))
This of course breaks my own rule about not having objects for data only
but the intelligent constructor makes it worth it. :-)
Also there might well be other things you want to do to these elements
having collected them...
The problem being i dont really do something per line? I would like to
say
something like, for line until the next 'name', make that 1 element.
So i would like to then have a list or dict (this probably makes sense
for a
dict) with that group. I would then probably split it into various
elements.
Just one alternative...
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