I'm trying to make a dict from my sample string but I'm getting a sample source that is VERY dirty
my working python snippet:
dict(item.split(':', 1) for item in re.sub(' ', '', re.sub('"', '', ','.join(
list(filter(None, re.sub('\r', '', text_subsection.split('text')[1]).split('\n')))))).split(',')
)
example of what is in text_subsection is :
\r\n; Count of Something: 3\r\ntext\r\n"Key1: 9999999, Key2: mnkhkljh213, Key3: 593, Key4: 66666"\r\n"Key5 something: sample, Desc: , Date: 4/28/2025, Time: 4:15 PM"\r\n"ANOTHERKEY: 622523, KEY1: 9999999, KEY6: 160305, KEY7: 0, KEY8: 10, KEY11: 1, DATE: 4/28/2025, TIME: 16:15:50"\r\n
notes:
yes, key1 comes in as "Key1" AND "KEY1"
yes, date comes in as "Date" and "DATE"
yes, time comes in as "Time" and "TIME" and multiple ":"
yes, key5 has a space in the name
I'm fine with these key dupes in the logic that later uses this dictionary
You can merge the two outer re.sub, remove the list and merge the inner re.sub with the split:
dict(item.split(':', 1) for item in re.sub(' |"', '', ','.join(filter(None, text_subsection.split('text')[1].split('\r\n')))).split(','))
re.sub(' |"', '', ...) removes all spaces and double quotes.
join expects an iterable. It doesn't have to be a list.
If \n always comes with an \r, removing \r and splitting by \n is the same as splitting by \r\n.