File, String as Variable Value

[rmsagar]

In my file, I have lines similar to this
<Log LogID="633198520" LogLevel="Normal" Date="10/01/09 19:18" Type="Error" Source="Mentor" Text="Failed to process the request." />

When the line is read, if it is converted as field value pair I thought it will be easy to take required field. Please advise how this can be achieved.

-Thanks MS

[vegaseat]

If you only have one line than you can simply do this ...

line = '<Log LogID="633198520" LogLevel="Normal" Date="10/01/09 19:18" Type="Error" Source="Mentor" Text="Failed to process the request." />'

# slice off first 5 and last 3 characters 
line = line[5:-3]
# testing ...
print line

line = line.replace('" ', '"|')
# testing ...
print line

line_list = line.split('|')
# testing ...
print line_list

print('-'*60)

for item in line_list:
    exec(item)

# testing ...
print LogID
print Date
print Text

If you have multiple lines you have to invent a way to keep the variables separate for each line, may with an array assignment. I would do a list of dictionaries where the key would be the variable name.

[Gribouillis]

Also note that the line looks like an xml tag. If your file is an xml file, you could parse it with lxml for example.

[rmsagar]

Thanks.