Iterate through parts of a string

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Thomas picture Thomas · Feb 14, 2011 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

I have string in the form

[3339:1.6101369,1062:1.5,5751:1.5,6376:1.5,  ...  ]

I want to iterate through the comma separated key-value pairs. What is the best or shortest way to do this?

Answer

Sven Marnach picture Sven Marnach · Feb 14, 2011 
s = "[3339:1.6101369,1062:1.5,5751:1.5,6376:1.5]"
s = s.strip("[]")    # Drop the brackets
for kv in s.split(","):
    key, value = kv.split(":")
    print key, value

Alternatively, you could convert this into a dictionary (after stripping the brackets):

d = dict(kv.split(":") for kv in s.split(","))

and then iterate over the dictionary:

for key in d:
    print key, d[key]

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