joblack wrote: > I've got a string which (without any CR or LF) consists of > > 'attribute1=attribute_value;attribute2=attribute_value2; ...'
Technically that's short of a rigorous specification, but it sure looks like a standard web "query string", the content type known as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded". See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string > 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? Parsing query strings is already implemented (more than once) in Python's standard library. In current Python 2.x, you might use urlparse.parse_qs(). As in: >>> from urlparse import parse_qs >>> >>> parse_qs('attribute1=attribute_value;attribute2=attribute_value2') {'attribute2': ['attribute_value2'], 'attribute1': ['attribute_value']} You'll note the values are lists, to handle the cases where a name is equated to more than one simple value. -- --Bryan Olson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
