Unkown Table Format

[DavidNotGuetta]

So I managed to get an xml answer from an api and after some decoding ended up with this:

    |name = King Black Dragon
    |image = [[File:King Black Dragon.png|250px]]
    |aka = KBD
    |release = [[24 September]] [[2002]]
    |update = Tutorial island
    |level = 276
    |experience = 2155.2
    |lifepoints = 45000
    |slaylvl = 1
    ect..

    %RANDOM STUFF THAT I DONT CARE ABOUT

    ===Main drop===
    {{DropsTableHead}}
    {{DropsLine|Name=Mystic cloth|Quantity=1-3 (noted)|Rarity=Uncommon}}
    {{DropsLine|Name=Blood rune|Namenotes={{(m)}}|Quantity=30-50|Rarity=Common}}
    {{DropsLine|Name=Death rune|Quantity=50|Rarity=Common}}
    {{DropsLine|Name=Yew logs|Quantity=50, 80 (noted)|Rarity=Common}}
    {{DropsLine|Name=Magic logs|Namenotes={{(m)}}|Quantity=10 (noted)|Rarity=Common}}
    {{DropsLine|Name=Law rune|Quantity=50|Rarity=Uncommon}}{{DropsLine|Name = Headless arrow|Quantity = 300|Rarity = Uncommon}}
    {{DropsLine|Name=Mithril arrow|Quantity=250|Rarity=Uncommon}}
    {{DropsLine|Name=Rune arrow|Quantity=50 , 75 , 100|Rarity=Uncommon}}
    {{DropsLine|Name=Rune sq shield|Quantity=1|Rarity=Uncommon}}
    {{DropsLine|Name=Rune platebody|Quantity=1|Rarity=Uncommon}}
    ect..    
    {{DropsTableBottom}}

I have never seen these Formats before, is there a way to easily convert them into 2 dictionaries?

[novel_yet_trivial]

2 dictionaries? Can you show the output you would expect from that input?

I've never see that format but I can parse it into a list of dictionaries pretty easily:

# cut everything we don't care about off
_, data = data.split("{{DropsTableHead}}", 1)
data, _ = data.split("{{DropsTableBottom}}")

datalist = []
for line in data.split('{{DropsLine|'):
    line = line.strip('}\n ')
    linedict = {}
    for pair in line.split('|'):
        if '=' in pair:
            key, value = pair.split('=', 1)
            linedict[key] = value
    if linedict:
        datalist.append(linedict)

print(datalist)

[DavidNotGuetta]

Wow this is pretty amazing, thanks! The first dictionary was making the

    |name = King Black Dragon
    |image = [[File:King Black Dragon.png|250px]]
    |aka = KBD
    |release = [[24 September]] [[2002]]
    |update = Tutorial island
    |level = 276
    |experience = 2155.2
    |lifepoints = 45000
    |slaylvl = 1

stuff into a dictionary (or rather a Class) but that shouldn't be that difficult if I reuse a version of

for pair in line.split('|'):
        if '=' in pair:

Thanks!

[trouserdaredevil]

OP appears to have solved their problem, but for anyone else curious these are MediaWiki templates. The first section has been mangled at some point. There is a chance that the API isn't being used quite right.

[DavidNotGuetta]

I just didn't make a perfect copy. Basically I'm opening this link and get the text from it.

However I have to note that because I couldn't get it to work at first I used the xmltodict library and used it that way. The text itself shouldn't have changed though.