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From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
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Subject: Re: Python Regular Expressions
Date: 22 Jun 2011 14:58:51 GMT
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On 2011-06-22, Andy Barnes <andy.barnes@gmail.com> wrote:
> to expand. I have parsed one of the lines manually to try and break
> the process I'm trying to automate down.
>
> source:
> Theurgic Lore, Lore, n/a, 105, 70, 30, Distil Mana
>
> output:
> TheurgicLore [label="{ Theurgic Lore |{Lore|n/a}|{105|70|30}}"];
> DistilMana -> TheurgicLore;
>
> This is the steps I would take to do this conversion manually:

It seems to me that parsing the file into an intermediate model
and then using that model to serialize your output would be
easier to understand and more robust than modifying the csv
entries in place. It decouples deciphering the meaning of the
data from emitting the data, which is more robust and expansable.

The amount of ingenuity required is less, though. ;)

-- 
Neil Cerutti