regex = """# #(?P<city>[a-zA-Z]+) # Population = (?P<population>\d+)cr Temperature = (?P<temperature>\d+) deg cel Area = (?P<area>\d+) sqft"""
regex = re.compile(regex, flags=re.MULTILINE) print regex.findall(rstr) # >>> [('Delhi', '7', '10', '13000'), ('Mumbai', '10', '30', '132000')] for x in regex.finditer(rstr): group = x.groupdict() data[group['city']] = {'area': int(group['area']), 'population': int(group['population']), 'temperature': int(group['temperature'])} In [14]: data Out[14]: {'Delhi': {'area': 13000, 'population': 7, 'temperature': 10}, 'Mumbai': {'area': 132000, 'population': 10, 'temperature': 30}} -- Dhruv Baldawa (http://www.dhruvb.com) On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Rahul R <rahul8...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey David, > > Assuming , its not a continuous stream of data being written to file all > the time. you could do something like this > https://gist.github.com/4477268 . > you can enhance it and make it more pythonic. :) > > Thanks, > Rahul > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:02 PM, davidsnt <david...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > No this file changes very often, like once in 5 minutes and the values > are > > updated, also there is no way I can move it to a database. > > > > Regards, > > Davidsanthosh L > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Amit Sethi <amit.pureene...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:52 PM, davidsnt <david...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Gora, > > > > > > > > Can you help me with few links that you have handy to which I can > refer > > > to > > > > build a parser instead of RE > > > Can you elaborate on the idea of "build a parser" , in any case you > > > will have to use regex. > > > > > > > I also need this app to be > > > >able to do a search in the file based on the title. > > > What kind of file are you are working with , How often does it change? > > > It might be good move the data to a database in case file does not > > > change very often . > > > > > > -- > > > A-M-I-T S|S > > > _______________________________________________ > > > BangPypers mailing list > > > BangPypers@python.org > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers