# Copyright 2018 VyOS maintainers and contributors # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library. If not, see . import re def colon_separated_to_dict(data_string, uniquekeys=False): """ Converts a string containing newline-separated entries of colon-separated key-value pairs into a dict. Such files are common in Linux /proc filesystem Args: data_string (str): data string uniquekeys (bool): whether to insist that keys are unique or not Returns: dict Raises: ValueError: if uniquekeys=True and the data string has duplicate keys. Note: If uniquekeys=True, then dict entries are always strings, otherwise they are always lists of strings. """ key_value_re = re.compile('([^:]+)\s*\:\s*(.*)') data_raw = re.split('\n', data_string) data = {} for l in data_raw: l = l.strip() if l: match = re.match(key_value_re, l) if match: key = match.groups()[0].strip() value = match.groups()[1].strip() if key in data.keys(): if uniquekeys: raise ValueError("Data string has duplicate keys: {0}".format(key)) else: data[key].append(value) else: if uniquekeys: data[key] = value else: data[key] = [value] else: pass return data