John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 6:51 am, "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote:
> > OK, I've got a little problem that I'd like to ask the assembled minds
> > for help with. I can write code to parse this, but I'm thinking it may
> > be possible to do it with regexes. My regex foo isn't that good, so if
> > anyone is willing to help (or offer an alternate parsing suggestion)
> > I would be greatful. (This has to be stdlib only, by the way, I
> > can't introduce any new modules into the application so pyparsing is
> > not an option.)
> >
> > The challenge is to turn a string like this:
> >
> > a=1,b="0234,)#($)@", k="7"
> >
> > into this:
> >
> > [("a", "1"), ("b", "0234,)#($)#"), ("k", "7")]
>
> The challenge is for you to explain unambiguously what you want.
>
> 1. a=1 => "1" and k="7" => "7" ... is this a mistake or are the quotes
> optional in the original string when not required to protect a comma?
optional.
> 2. What is the rule that explains the transmogrification of @ to # in
> your example?
Now that's a mistake :)
> 3. Is the input guaranteed to be syntactically correct?
If it's not, it's the customer that gets to deal with the error.
> The following should do close enough to what you want; adjust as
> appropriate.
>
> >>> import re
> >>> s = """a=1,b="0234,)#($)@", k="7" """
> >>> rx = re.compile(r'[ ]*(\w+)=([^",]+|"[^"]*")[ ]*(?:,|$)')
> >>> rx.findall(s)
> [('a', '1'), ('b', '"0234,)#($)@"'), ('k', '"7"')]
> >>> rx.findall('a=1, *DODGY*SYNTAX* b=2')
> [('a', '1'), ('b', '2')]
> >>>
I'm going to save this one and study it, too. I'd like to learn
to use regexes better, even if I do try to avoid them when possible :)
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