Re: [Pyparsing] Access nested ParseResults

[thomas_h <th...@gm...>]

Paul,

great, thanks. I was thinking briefly of the Group class during my
research, but looking at the documentation thought it might serve a
different purpose. I will re-check the material on Group.

Cheers,
Thomas

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:28 PM,  <pt...@au...> wrote:
>
> To keep the different names of each pair separate, you'll need to enclose pp1 in a Group:
>
>     pp1=py.Group(py.Word(py.alphanums)("name") + py.Word(py.nums)("number"))
>
>
> Now when you parse your string, r2.list will contain a list of paired name-values:
>
>     r2=pp2.parseString("BAR 10, ZAP 20")
>
>     for pair in r2.list:
>         print pair.name, pair.number
>
> To get at an individual element, just using sliced indexing, just like it was a normal list:
>
>     print r2.list[0].name
>
> -- Paul
>
>