Re: [Pyparsing] pyparsing svg - noob

[Donn <don...@gm...>]

Paul,
Sorry to bug you. Two things: 
1. I am having a conceptual issue with the "list" returned by parseString. I 
can't seem to use it as a normal list. Mainly I like to while len(l)>0: and 
then l.pop(0) to process it but I can't seem to pop this list.
2. It seems the optional closing "Z" is being ignored.

dot = Literal(".")
float = Combine(Optional("-") + Word(nums) + dot + Word(nums))
command = oneOf("M L C Z")
comma = Literal(",").suppress()
couple = Group(float + comma + float)
phrase = OneOrMore(command + Group(OneOrMore(couple)) )

#No C commands in this one...
d1="""M 209.12237,172.2415 L 286.76739,153.51369 L 286.76739,275.88534 L 
209.12237,294.45058 L 209.12237,172.2415 z """

paths = []
pl = phrase.parseString(d1.upper())

while len(pl) > 0:
 something = pl.pop(0)
 print something

(I get : TypeError: 'str' object is not callable)

I could use <for something in pl:> but since some of the coord lists are 
longer than others and not grouped ideally, it gets hairy. 

The ideal grouping would be something like this (I mix C and L commands)
['M', [float,float],
'C',[float,float,float,float,float,float],
'L',[float,float],
'Z']
So I can just pop them off one by one.

\d