Picking apart strings

[tmallen]

Is there a way to pick apart this text without resorting to regular
expressions?

p {
color: black;
}

p -element
color -property
black -value

[jay graves]

On Jun 3, 1:44 pm, tmallen <[e-mail]:

Is there a way to pick apart this text without resorting to regular
expressions?

p {
color: black;

}

p -element
color -property
black -value

http://code.google.com/p/cssutils/

[Russ P.]

On Jun 3, 11:44 am, tmallen <[e-mail]:

Is there a way to pick apart this text without resorting to regular
expressions?

p {
color: black;

}

p -element
color -property
black -value

Sure.

data = txt.strip("}").split("{")

element = data[0].strip()

items = data[1].split(";")

for item in items:

data = item.split(":")
property = data[0].strip() # avoid this keyword
value = data[1].strip()

I didn't test this. Also, the module suggested in the other reply
might make more sense, depending on how much of this sort of thing you
need to do.