Advice for a python newbie on parsing whois records?

[Miki]

Hello,

> Hi. I'm stretching my boundaries in programming with a little python
> shell-script which is going to loop through a list of domain names,
> grab the whois record, parse it, and put the results into a csv.
>
> I've got the results coming back fine, but since I have *no*
> experience with python I'm wondering what would be the preferred
> "pythonic" way of parsing the whois string into a csv record.
>
> Tips/thoughts/examples more than welcome!

from os import popen
import re

find_record = re.compile("\s+([^:]+): (.*)\s*").match
for line in popen("whois google.com"):
    match = find_record(line)
    if not match:
        continue
    print "%s --> %s" % (match.groups()[0], match.groups()[1])

HTH,
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Miki <miki.tebeka at gmail.com>
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