Parse txt to blocks

Question

i have a txt file, which has the following structure

start
id=1
date=21.05.2018
summ=500
end

start
id=7
date=23.05.2018
summ=500
owner=guest
end

Answer 1

You could also try something like this:

from itertools import takewhile

with open('data.txt') as in_file:
    items = [line.strip() for line in in_file.read().split()]
    # ['start', 'id=1', 'date=21.05.2018', 'summ=500', 'end', 'start', 'id=7', 'date=23.05.2018', 'summ=500', 'owner=guest']

    pos = [i for i, item in enumerate(items) if item == 'start']
    # [0, 5]

    blocks = [list(takewhile(lambda x: x != 'end', items[i+1:])) for i in pos]
    # [['id=1', 'date=21.05.2018', 'summ=500'], ['id=7', 'date=23.05.2018', 'summ=500', 'owner=guest']]

    print([dict(x.split('=') for x in block) for block in blocks])

Which Outputs:

[{'id': '1', 'date': '21.05.2018', 'summ': '500'}, {'id': '7', 'date': '23.05.2018', 'summ': '500', 'owner': 'guest'}]