String splitting with exceptions
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Wed Aug 28 13:32:46 EDT 2013
On 2013-08-28 13:14, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013, at 12:44, John Levine wrote:
> > I have a crufty old DNS provisioning system that I'm rewriting
> > and I hope improving in python. (It's based on tinydns if you
> > know what that is.)
> >
> > The record formats are, in the worst case, like this:
> >
> > foo.[DOM]::[IP6::4361:6368:6574]:600::
>
> Otherwise:
> >>> re.findall('((?:[^[:]|\[[^]]*\])*):?',s)
> ['foo.[DOM]', '', '[IP6::4361:6368:6574]', '600', '', '']
>
> I'm not sure why _your_ list only has one empty string at the end.
I wondered that. I also wondered about bracketed quoting that
doesn't start at the beginning of a field:
foo.[one:two]::[IP6::1234:5678:9101]:600::
^
This might be bogus, or one might want to catch this case.
-tkc
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