[Tutor] Parsing problem

[Kent Johnson]

Liam Clarke wrote:
> What I need to do, is to turn this into a data structure, and I think 
> this relates to XML in a way. Basically, I want to parse the above (I 
> assume I'll be counting braces to find where I am) so that a country 
> object called ENG has a dictionary called ai, which points to lists, 
> integers, strings etc. and so forth. 
> 
> If anyone has any links to any (simple) examples of XML parsing or 
> similar which could give me pointers as to how to go about this, it'd be 
> much appreciated.

Take a look at pyparsing, I think it is the easiest Python parsing package.
http://pyparsing.sourceforge.net/

Kent