Wow, what a great group! Lots of useful and kind suggestions to what I was
sure was a fairly dumb question. A few comments on some selected suggestions
(but I appreciate all of them)
Edward Kozlowski wrote:
> egt = {}
> for key in record:
> if key.startswith('E'):
> egt[key] = record[key]
I actually had come up with something like this, but thought it wasn't
quite as pythonish as it should be. It is certainly much more readable
to a neophyte to python.
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> egt = dict((k, v) for k, v in record.iteritems() if k.startswith('E'))
This is what I was looking for. I thought I had seen something simular
to this in one of the tutorials I had read, but couldn't seem to find it.
Steven D'Aprano:
> eval("{" + reduce(lambda x,y: y+', '+x, [mo.group(1) for mo in __import__
> ('re').finditer(r"('E.*?'\s*:\s*'.*?'),?", str(record))], "") + "}")
Ah! Now this is one solution I can get my teeth into. If its not obvious,
I'm a recovering perl programmer.
Thanks to all
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