Re: [Configobj-develop] YAQAQ - Yet Another Question About Quotes

[Marc T. <mar...@gm...>]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...>wrote:

> In the meantime your two phase replace sounds like our only option. You
> could replace each apostrophe with a unique character combination and
> then us walk() to replace every occurrence again after reading.
>

Since you followed up, I figured I'd go ahead and post my eventual
solution.  Could probably be more elegant, but it does what I need it to...

from __future__ import with_statement
import os, zipfile, textwrap
from configobj import ConfigObj

class mcrCodes(object):
    """
    Provides dictionary of Medicare reason codes.
    Methods:
        __init__ - create dictionary
        lookup - return formatted explanation for given code
    Attributes:
        codes - dictionary of codes, explanations, and valid dates
        releaseDate - date working version of Codes.ini was released

    """
    def __init__(self, codeFileName=os.getcwd() + os.sep +
"MedicareRemitEasyPrint.zip"):
        """
        If codeFileName is a zip file, it will be searched for a 'Codes.ini'
file;
        if not, codeFileName will be accessed directly.
        ConfigObj interprets internal quotes, so we replace apostrophes with
backquotes before passing file to ConfigObj.
        """
        if zipfile.is_zipfile(codeFileName):
            piz = zipfile.ZipFile(codeFileName)
            for item in piz.infolist():
                if item.filename[-3:] == "ini":
                    inFile = piz.read(item.filename)
                    tmpCodes = inFile.splitlines()
        else:
            with open(codeFileName,'r') as inFile:
                tmpCodes = inFile.readlines()
        self.releaseDate = tmpCodes.pop(0)
        for index, line in enumerate(tmpCodes):
            tmpCodes[index] = line.replace("\'", "`")
        self.codes = ConfigObj(tmpCodes, raise_errors=True,
list_values=False)

    def lookup(self, inStr=None, width=70, para=True):
        """
        Return a text-wrapped paragraph or list of lines containing
explanation text for the code passed in inStr.
            inStr - code to be looked up
            width - line length to wrap to
            para - if True, return paragraph; if False, return list of lines
        """
        wrp = textwrap.TextWrapper(width=width, initial_indent=inStr+" - ",
subsequent_indent="  ")
        try:
            outStr = self.codes[inStr]["Message"].replace("`", "'") # change
backquotes back to apostrophes
        except KeyError:
            outStr = "Sorry, no explanatory text is available for this
code.  Make sure your code file is up-to-date."
        if para:
            return wrp.fill(outStr)
        else:
            return wrp.wrap(outStr)



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