Re: parsing string to a list of objects - help!

2007-11-05 Thread Donn Ingle
Wow Paul, you have given me much to chew. I'll start testing it in my slow way -- it looks so simple! Thank you. \d -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: parsing string to a list of objects - help!

2007-11-05 Thread Donn Ingle
Paul, I quickly slapped your example into a py file for a first-glance test and the first part works, but the second gives me the error below. Could I have an old version of pyparser? I will dig into it anyway, just being lazy :) code: from pyparsing import * frame = Literal("#") tween = Word("-"

Re: parsing string to a list of objects - help!

2007-11-05 Thread Donn Ingle
Wow Paul, you have given me much to chew. I'll start testing it in my slow way -- it looks so simple! Thank you. \d -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: parsing string to a list of objects - help!

2007-11-05 Thread Paul McGuire
On Nov 5, 3:00 am, Donn Ingle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have glanced around at parsing and all the tech-speak confuses the heck > out of me. I am not too smart and would appreciate any help that steers > away from cold theory and simply hits at this problem. > Donn - Here is a pyparsing ve

parsing string to a list of objects - help!

2007-11-05 Thread Donn Ingle
Hi, I really hope someone can help me -- I'm stuck. I have written three versions of code over a week and still can't get past this problem, it's blocking my path to getting other code written. This might be a little hairy, but I'll try to keep it short. Situation: I want to pass a string to a