CONTEST - What is the (best) solution?

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Lad,

> In a file there can be several dictionaries like this
> {Key11: Value11
> Key12: Value12
> Key13: Value13,
> ...
> ...
> Key1n:Value1n}
> {Key21: Value21
> Key22: Value22
> Key23: Value23,
> ...
> ...
> Key2n:Value2n}
> {Key31: Value31
> Key32: Value32
> Key33: Value33,
> ...
> ...
> Key3n:Value3n}
> ....
> ....
> ....
> {Keyn1: Valuen1
> Keyn2: Valuen2
> Keyn3: Value3,
> ...
> ...
> Keynn:Valuenn}
> 
> Each pair in a dictionary is separated by CRLF and in each dictionary
> numbers of pairs can be different.
> I need to read only the the first and the last dictionaries.What is a
> best solution?

---- d.py ---

#!/usr/bin/env python

from sys import argv

dicts = eval("[" + open(argv[1]).read().replace("}", "},") + "]")
print dicts[0], dicts[-1]

---- d.py ---

HTH.
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