Parse specific text in email body to CSV file

[Miki]

Hello,
>
 I have been searching all over for a solution to this. I am new to
> Python, so I'm a little lost. Any pointers would be a great help. I
> have a couple hundred emails that contain data I would like to
> incorporate into a database or CSV file. I want to search the email
> for specific text.
>
> The emails basically look like this:
>
> random text _important text:_15648 random text random text random text
> random text
> random text random text random text _important text:_15493 random text
> random text
> random text random text _important text:_11674 random text random text
> random text
> ===============Date: Wednesday March 5, 2008================
> name1: 15                name5: 14
>
> name2: 18                name6: 105
>
> name3: 64                name7: 2
>
> name4: 24                name8: 13
>
> I want information like "name1: 15" to be placed into the CSV with the
> name "name1" and the value "15". The same goes for the date and
> "_important text:_15493".
>
> I would like to use this CSV or database to plot a graph with the
> data.
import re

for match in re.finditer("_([\w ]+):_(\d+)", text):
    print match.groups()[0], match.groups()[1]

for match in re.finditer("Date: ([^=]+)=", text):
    print match.groups()[0]

for match in re.finditer("(\w+): (\d+)", text):
    print match.groups()[0], match.groups()[1]


Now you have two problems :)

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