> Great links, Danny. Thanks. I had seen mxTextTools before but didn't > search for the right thing before raising the question. The pyparsing > seems very interesting. The code that I attach below is a very > light-weight version of a formatted reader. It assumes that you just > want to pluck white-space delimited values out of lines in a text file > (something I've had to do from time to time and something others have > asked about on tutor before). Perhaps this is the sort of simple > approach that evolves into one of the tools above as more complex > parsing rules are needed.
Hi Chris, Yes, I suspect that this happens a lot. I have my own little formatting reader that simulates some of the features of C's scanf, for example: http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/scanf/ so I think it's one of those little exercises that everyone ends up doing at least once. *grin* _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor