My Big Dict.

[drs]

"Christophe Delord" <christophe.delord at free.fr> wrote in message
news:20030702073735.40293ba2.christophe.delord at free.fr...
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 00:13:26 -0400, Xavier wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > (do excuse the possibly comical subject text)
> >
> > I need advice on how I can convert a text db into a dict.  Here is an
> > example of what I need done.
> >
> > some example data lines in the text db goes as follows:
> >
> > CODE1!DATA1 DATA2, DATA3
> > CODE2!DATA1, DATA2 DATA3
> >
> > As you can see, the lines are dynamic and the data are not alike, they
> > change in permission values (but that's obvious in any similar
> > situation)
> >
> > Any idea on how I can convert 20,000+ lines of the above into the
> > following protocol for use in my code?:
> >
> > TXTDB = {'CODE1': 'DATA1 DATA2, DATA3', 'CODE2': 'DATA1, DATA2 DATA3'}
> >
>
> If your data is in a string you can use a regular expression to parse
> each line, then the findall method returns a list of tuples containing
> the key and the value of each item. Finally the dict class can turn this
> list into a dict. For example:

and you can kill a fly with a sledgehammer.  why not

f = open('somefile.txt')
d = {}
l = f.readlines()
for i in l:
    a,b = i.split('!')
    d[a] = b.strip()

or am i missing something obvious? (b/t/w the above parsed 20000+ lines on a
celeron 500 in less than a second.)

-d