blob: 9a36ef84fd8b240481a69db963c8fdfa22248978 (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
|
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
|
