On 06/03/2010 09:21 PM, joblack 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?
While I agree with Bryan that this looks suspiciously like a URL
query-string (and thus you likely want to use his suggestion for
the built-in tools to parse them), I haven't seen the one-liner
version float by, so here it is just for fun:
s = "hello=world;this=that;foo=bar"
results = dict((k,v) for (k,_,v) in (pair.partition('=') for
pair in s.split(';')))
As Bryan cautions, URL query-strings can have multiple values for
the same key, and your example doesn't address that case:
foo=bar;foo=baz;hello=world;this=that
so the code examples you're getting don't address it either :)
-tkc
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