How to form a dict out of a string by doing regex ?

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/15/2011 10:42 AM, Satyajit Sarangi wrote:
>
>
> data = "GEOMETRYCOLLECTION (POINT (-8.9648437500000000
> -4.1308593750000000), POINT (2.0214843750000000 -2.6367187500000000),
> POINT (-1.4062500000000000 -11.1621093750000000), POINT
> (-11.9531250000000000,-10.8984375000000000), POLYGON
> ((-21.6210937500000000 1.8457031250000000,2.4609375000000000
> 2.1972656250000000, -18.9843750000000000 -3.6914062500000000,
> -22.6757812500000000 -3.3398437500000000, -22.1484375000000000
> -2.6367187500000000, -21.6210937500000000
> 1.8457031250000000)),LINESTRING (-11.9531250000000000
> 11.3378906250000000, 7.7343750000000000 11.5136718750000000,
> 12.3046875000000000 2.5488281250000000, 12.2167968750000000
> 1.6699218750000000, 14.5019531250000000 3.9550781250000000))"
>
> This is my string .

If this what you are given by an unchangable external source or can you 
get something a bit better? One object per line would make the problem 
pretty simple, with no regex required.

> How do I traverse through it and form 3 dicts of Point , Polygon and
> Linestring containing the co-ordinates ?

Dicts map keys to values. I do not see any key values above. It looks 
like you really want three sets.


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Terry Jan Reedy