Making a tiny script language using python: I need a string processing lib

[James Stroud]

Sullivan WxPyQtKinter wrote:
> I do not know if there is any lib specially designed to process the
> strings in scipt language.
> for example:
> I hope to process the string"print a,b,c,d,e "in the form"command
> argumentlist" and return:
> {'command'='print',
> 'argumentlist'=['a','b','c','d','e']}
> Are there any lib to implement this?
> 
> 
> Ideally , the lib should have a function like below:
> 
> def extract(commandstring, splitformat)
> 
> eg:
> extract("see#you at tonight","what#whom at when")
> return: {"what":"see","whom":"you","when":"tonight"}
> 
> extract("1;2;3;4;5","list[;]")
> return: {"list":['1','2','3','4','5']}
> 
> extract("print a,b,c,d,e","command arglist[,]")
> return: {"command":"print","arglist":['a','b','c','d','e']}
> 
> extract("fruit:apple~orgrange~pear~grape#name:tom;sam;dim;ham"
>          ,"class1:instance1[~]#class2:instance2[;]")
> return: {"class1":"fruit",
>          instance1:['apple','orange','pear','grape'],
>          "class2":"name",
>          "instance2":['tom','sam','dim','ham']
>          }

Your best bets are simpleparse (http://simpleparse.sourceforge.net/) or 
ply (http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/ply.html). Both have a little learning 
curve but are well worth the time investment if you will be doing things 
like you describe.

James