On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:21 PM, joblack <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've got a string which (without any CR or LF) consists of
>
> 'attribute1=attribute_value;attribute2=attribute_value2; ...'
>
> and I want them to read in a dictionary so that the attribute name is
> the key and the attribute value is the data.
>
> Any ideas for an implementation?
>
> Greetings and thanks
> jb
> --
If you can guarantee that the attributes and values don't have
semicolons or equal signs in them, you can just split it
for pair in your_string.split(';') :
key, value = pair.split('=')
your_dict[key] = value
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