Issue in parsing the strings in python code

[Brian Oney]

On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 14:17 +0000, Rhodri James wrote:
> On 12/11/2018 09:37, srinivasan wrote:
> > Because the problem is every time when ever I see the output  using the
> > "nmcli c show", the below output is the weird output, so instead of
> > connecting to SSID "NIFunkloch" it randomly connects to "NIFunkloch 1552"
> > or sometimes to NIFunkloch 1000" or so on
> > 
> > root:~/qa/robot_tests# nmcli c show
> > NAME                UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE
> > 
> > NIFunkloch 1552     c8e1e8c0-0f25-4299-a9ae-2910cfef2ebd  wifi      wlp1s0
> > 
> > Wired connection 1  2a14fbe6-58a0-3b7f-b986-5d1b36a94ec0  ethernet
> > enp0s21f0u4
> > NIFunkloch          1da7d068-4548-4446-bf88-a440e49db1b1  wifi      --
> 
> [snipped for brevity]
> 
> That looks conveniently aligned.  Can't you just slice each line to get 
> the entries you are after?
> 

I believe the idea is to allow the help seeker to piece the following puzzle together.

$ nmcli -t NAME,SOMETHINGELSE c show
>>> help(subprocess.Popen)
>>> text.split(':')
>>> aarrr.shiver_me(timbers) if "I am" in "the Bermuda triangle" else help("where")