I have a raw string in Python that is retrieved via an imap library.
It looks like this:
Season: Winter 2017-18
Activity: Basketball - Boys JV
*DATE: 02/13/2018 * - ( previously 02/06/2018 )
Event type: Game
Home/Host: Clear Lake
Opponent: Webster City
*START TIME: 6:15PM CST* - ( previously 4:30PM CST )
Location: Clear Lake High School, 125 N. 20th Street, Clear Lake, IA
What would be the best way to scrap the data that comes after each label (label is DATE:) For example DATE: 02/13/2018 * - ( previously 02/06/2018 ) would be set equal to a variable like Date, so when print(date) is printed, 02/13/2018 * - ( previously 02/06/2018 ) would be the output.
I tried the below code, but it printed one character per line. Thanks!
for line in message:
if "DATE:" in line:
print line
You can use regular expressions and a dictionary:
import re
s = """
Season: Winter 2017-18
Activity: Basketball - Boys JV
*DATE: 02/13/2018 * - ( previously 02/06/2018 )
Event type: Game
Home/Host: Clear Lake
Opponent: Webster City
*START TIME: 6:15PM CST* - ( previously 4:30PM CST )
Location: Clear Lake High School, 125 N. 20th Street, Clear Lake, IA
"""
final_dict = {(a[1:] if a.startswith('*') else a).strip('\r'):b.strip('\r') for a, b in filter(lambda x:len(x)> 1, [re.split('\:\s', i) for i in filter(None, s.split('\n'))])}
Output:
{'Home/Host': 'Clear Lake', 'Season': 'Winter 2017-18', 'START TIME': '6:15PM CST* - ( previously 4:30PM CST )', 'Location': 'Clear Lake High School, 125 N. 20th Street, Clear Lake, IA', 'Activity': 'Basketball - Boys JV', 'DATE': '02/13/2018 * - ( previously 02/06/2018 )', 'Event type': 'Game', 'Opponent': 'Webster City'}