Parsing String, Dictionary Lookups, Writing to Database Table

[George Sakkis]

Rich Shepard wrote:

>    I know how I'd do all this in C, but since I'm learning python I have not
> found how best to accomplish this despite the books and online references
> I've read.

Can you post one or more examples of expected input-output pairs ? From
your description it's not really clear what's going on. Also, please
post working code; the snippets you posted were out of context (what is
row?) and not always correct syntactically (split_line(2:4)).

George