Pyparsing question

[Paul McGuire]

"Khoa Nguyen" <KNguyen at MEGISTO.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.13.1084809534.6949.python-list at python.org...
>  Hi,
>
>  I am a newbie to Python and pyparsing. I am having difficulty creating a
>  grammar that spans multiple lines, the input data look like this
>
>  RTSP/1.0 200 OK\r\n
>  Cseq: 1\r\n
>  Session: 12345-1\r\n
>  \r\n
>
>  Greatly appreciate if anyone can give me a sample or point me to the
>  right direction
>
>  Thanks,
>
>
>  Khoa Nguyen
=========================
Khoa -

In general, pyparsing will ignore line breaks as whitespace.  This data
could be parsed with as broad a grammar as:

response = Literal("RTSP") + restOfLine.setResultsName("RTSPline") + \
    Literal("Cseq:") + restOfLine.setResultsName("CseqLine") + \
    Literal("Session:") + restOfLine.setResultsName("SessionLine")

For more structure, enclose each line inside Group objects.
response = Group( Literal("RTSP") + restOfLine ).setResultsName("RTSPline")
+ \
    Group( Literal("Cseq:") + restOfLine ).setResultsName("CseqLine") + \
    Group( Literal("Session:") + restOfLine ).setResultsName("SessionLine")

Here is a working (and tested!) sample.

-- Paul


==========================

from pyparsing import Literal, restOfLine, Group

data = """RTSP/1.0 200 OK
Cseq: 1
Session: 12345-1

"""

print "========"
print data
print "========"

response = Literal("RTSP") + restOfLine.setResultsName("RTSPline") + \
    Literal("Cseq:") + restOfLine.setResultsName("CseqLine") + \
    Literal("Session:") + restOfLine.setResultsName("SessionLine")

respFields = response.parseString(data)
print respFields
for k in respFields.keys():
    print k,"=",respFields[k]

===========================
Output:

========
RTSP/1.0 200 OK
Cseq: 1
Session: 12345-1


========
['RTSP', '/1.0 200 OK', 'Cseq:', ' 1', 'Session:', ' 12345-1']
SessionLine =  12345-1
RTSPline = /1.0 200 OK
CseqLine =  1
============================
Output (using Group'ed constructs):
========
RTSP/1.0 200 OK
Cseq: 1
Session: 12345-1


========
[['RTSP', '/1.0 200 OK'], ['Cseq:', ' 1'], ['Session:', ' 12345-1']]
SessionLine = ['Session:', ' 12345-1']
RTSPline = ['RTSP', '/1.0 200 OK']
CseqLine = ['Cseq:', ' 1']