parse a string of parameters and values

[bsneddon]

I have a problem that I can come up with a brute force solution to
solve but it occurred to me that there may be an
 "one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it".

I am going to read a text file that is an export from a control
system.
It has lines with information like

base=1 name="first one" color=blue

I would like to put this info into a dictionary for processing.
I have looked at optparse and getopt maybe they are the answer but
there could
be and very straight forward way to do this task.

Thanks for your help