Sullivan WxPyQtKinter wrote:
> I do not know if there is any lib specially designed to process the
> strings in scipt language.
> for example:
> I hope to process the string"print a,b,c,d,e "in the form"command
> argumentlist" and return:
> {'command'='print',
> 'argumentlist'=['a','b','c','d','e']}
> Are there any lib to implement this?
>
>
> Ideally , the lib should have a function like below:
>
> def extract(commandstring, splitformat)
>
> eg:
> extract("[EMAIL PROTECTED]","[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
> return: {"what":"see","whom":"you","when":"tonight"}
>
> extract("1;2;3;4;5","list[;]")
> return: {"list":['1','2','3','4','5']}
>
> extract("print a,b,c,d,e","command arglist[,]")
> return: {"command":"print","arglist":['a','b','c','d','e']}
>
> extract("fruit:apple~orgrange~pear~grape#name:tom;sam;dim;ham"
> ,"class1:instance1[~]#class2:instance2[;]")
> return: {"class1":"fruit",
> instance1:['apple','orange','pear','grape'],
> "class2":"name",
> "instance2":['tom','sam','dim','ham']
> }
Your best bets are simpleparse (http://simpleparse.sourceforge.net/) or
ply (http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/ply.html). Both have a little learning
curve but are well worth the time investment if you will be doing things
like you describe.
James
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