Parsing Hints

[Kent Johnson]

mwt wrote:
> Hi -
> I'm working on parsing a file that has data that looks like the sample
> below. 
> 
> Here's a sample of the data:
> 
>  Index 4: folding now
>   server: 171.65.199.158:8080; project: 1809
>   Folding: run 17, clone 19, generation 35; benchmark 669; misc: 500,
> 400
>   issue: Wed Mar 15 18:32:19 2006; begin: Wed Mar 15 18:32:25 2006
>   due: Fri Apr 28 19:32:25 2006 (44 days)
>   core URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~pande/Linux/x86/Core_82.fah
>   CPU: 1,0 x86; OS: 4,0 Linux
>   assignment info (le): Wed Mar 15 18:32:19 2006; A0F3AAD2
>   CS: 171.65.103.100; P limit: 5241856
>   user: MWT; team: 0; ID: 1A2BFB777775B7B; mach ID: 2
>   work/wudata_04.dat file size: 82814; WU type: Folding at Home
> Average download rate 97.552 KB/s (u=4); upload rate 38.718 KB/s (u=3)
> Performance fraction 0.950453 (u=3)

You don't say what data you are trying to extract. If it is key:value 
pairs where the key is everything before the first colon, just use 
line.split(':', 1) to split on just the first colon.

Kent