Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cool. One questions and one suggestion then: > > - question: is there already available reusable parsing code for that > format? If not I can hack up something to be embedded into > python-debian, as I presume the code can be useful to somebody else
There isn't parsing code in Python. :) It's a fairly trivial regex parse, which is done by the Lintian scripts but not in a way that is very extractable (mostly because it's so trivial that we've not bothered). next if $line /^N:/; next unless $line =~ /^([EWIXO]): (\S+)(?: (\S+))?: (\S+)(?:\s+(.*))?/; my ($code, $package, $type, $tag, $extra) = ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5); $type = 'binary' unless $type; $type should be source, binary, or udeb. $package is the name of the package of that type, $tag is the tag, and $extra is any additional tag data. The $code will be E(rror), W(arning), I(nfo), (e)X(perimental), or O(verridden). Lines starting with N: are informational output that should be ignored. > - suggestion: please link the above URL from the Lintian website, so > that other people like me will avoid bothering you in the future with > this request :) Will do. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]