Am Sonntag 30 April 2006 19:26 schrieb veracon:
> -- Keep in mind that I don't want a string, I want a dictionary (but I
> can't figure out how to do it).
The following code does what you want:
>>>
# -*- coding: iso-8859-15 -*-
data = """food
fruit
red
cherry
yellow
banana
meat
pork
foo
bar
baz
qux"""
top = {}
stack = [-1]
items = {-1:top}
for l in data.split("\n"):
lindent, ldata = len(l[:-len(l.lstrip())].expandtabs()), l.lstrip()
while stack[-1] >= lindent:
del items[stack[-1]]
stack.pop()
items[lindent] = {}
items[stack[-1]][ldata] = items[lindent]
stack.append(lindent)
print top
>>>
Making a function out of it is up to you. ;-)
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