# # dictExample.py # # Illustration of using pyparsing's Dict class to process tabular data # # Copyright (c) 2003, Paul McGuire # from pyparsing import Literal, Word, Group, Dict, ZeroOrMore, alphas, nums, delimitedList import pprint testData = """ +-------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ | | A1 | B1 | C1 | D1 | A2 | B2 | C2 | D2 | +=======+======+======+======+======+======+======+======+======+ | min | 7 | 43 | 7 | 15 | 82 | 98 | 1 | 37 | | max | 11 | 52 | 10 | 17 | 85 | 112 | 4 | 39 | | ave | 9 | 47 | 8 | 16 | 84 | 106 | 3 | 38 | | sdev | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | +-------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ """ # define grammar for datatable heading = (Literal( "+-------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+") + "| | A1 | B1 | C1 | D1 | A2 | B2 | C2 | D2 |" + "+=======+======+======+======+======+======+======+======+======+").suppress() vert = Literal("|").suppress() number = Word(nums) rowData = Group( vert + Word(alphas) + vert + delimitedList(number,"|") + vert ) trailing = Literal( "+-------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+").suppress() datatable = heading + Dict( ZeroOrMore(rowData) ) + trailing # now parse data and print results data = datatable.parseString(testData) print(data) pprint.pprint(data.asList()) print("data keys=", list(data.keys())) print("data['min']=", data['min']) print("data.max", data.max)