Hi list, I'm in a process of rewriting a bash/awk/sed script -- that grew to big -- in python. I can rewrite it in a simple line-by-line way but that results in ugly python code and I'm sure there is a simple pythonic way.
The bash script processed text files of the form: ############################### key1 value1 key2 value2 key3 value3 key4 value4 spec11 spec12 spec13 spec14 spec21 spec22 spec23 spec24 spec31 spec32 spec33 spec34 key5 value5 key6 value6 key7 value7 more11 more12 more13 more21 more22 more23 key8 value8 ################################### I guess you get the point. If a line has two entries it is a key/value pair which should end up in a dictionary. If a key/value pair is followed by consequtive lines with more then two entries, it is a matrix that should end up in a list of lists (matrix) that can be identified by the key preceeding it. The empty line after the last line of a matrix signifies that the matrix is finished and we are back to a key/value situation. Note that a matrix is always preceeded by a key/value pair so that it can really be identified by the key. Any elegant solution for this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
