What is a perl hash in python

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Karyn Williams a écrit :
> I am new to Pyton. I am trying to modify and understand a script someone
> else wrote. I am trying to make sense of the following code snippet. I know
> line 7 would be best coded with regex. I first would like to understand
> what was coded originally. thelistOut looks like a hash to me (I'm more
> familiar with perl).

It's not a hash (the Python type for hashtables is 'dict'), it's a list 
of 2-tuples. FWIW, the dict type can accept such a list as an argument 
to it's constructor - but then you loose the ordering.

Also, the data structure is somewhat weird, since the second item of 
each tuple is always a one-element list.

> Perhaps someone could translate from perl to python

Do you mean "from Python to Perl" ?

> for me - not in code but just in concept.
> 
> 
> Here is the code. This script is reading the list thelistOut and then
> removing any items in RSMlist and taking the remainder and putting them in
> graphAddressOut with the formatting.
> 
> This is a SAMPLE of what is in the lists referenced below in the loop:
> 
> 
> thelistOut = [(632,
> ['/usr/local/www/data-dist/mrtg/main/test/172.16.0.23_9.log']), (145,
> ['/usr/local/www/data-dist/mrtg/main/test/172.16.0.23_13.log']), (0,
> ['/usr/local/www/data-dist/mrtg/main/test/172.16.0.23_5.log'])]
> 
> RSMList = ['172.16.0.1_1', '172.16.0.1_2', '172.16.0.1_3', '172.16.0.1_4',
> '172.16.0.1_5']
> 
> 
> 
> #--------------------------Loop 1 -------------------------
>        
>     w = 0
>     while w < 45:
>        
>        fileOut = string.split(thelistOut[w][1][0],".log")
>        fileOutSplitedCommon = string.split(fileOut[0], "main/")
>        fileOut2D = string.split(fileOutSplitedCommon[1], "/")
>        fileOut = string.split(fileOut[0],"data-dist")
> 
>        if fileOut2D[1] in RSMList:
>           w = w + 1
>           continue
>        graphAddressOut = tag1 + logUrl + fileOut[1] + extention1 + tag2 +
> "<b>SWITCH: " + string.swapcase(fileOut2D[0]) + "  &
> nbsp;PORT ID: " + fileOut2D[1] + "</b><br>" + imgTitleTag + imgTag1 +
> logUrl + fileOut[1] + extention2 + imgTag2 + tag3 + tag5
>        outputOut.append(graphAddressOut)
>        strOut = strOut + graphAddressOut
> 
>        w = w + 1
> 
> #--------------------------Loop 1 -------------------------
> 

Yuck. This code stinks. Whoever wrote this ought to be shot down. I 
refuse to try&clean this mess unless I get payed (and well payed).