Parse highlighter files.

parse.py

import re

fname = 'inp.txt'

colors = ['red','green','blue','orange','yellow']
colorheaders = ['red is for X','green is for y','blue','orange','yellow']

colorstrings = []

for c in colors:
    colorstrings.append('')

outname = 'sorted.txt'

f = open(fname)
fout = open(outname,'w')
inColor = False
for line in f:
    m = re.search('highlighted \| ([a-z]+)',line)

    # Are we at a highlighter line?
    if m:
        cname = m.groups(0)[0]
    else:
        cname = None
        
    if cname in colors:
        fred.write(line)
        inColor = True
        thisColor = colors.index(cname)
        colorstrings[thisColor] += (line + '\n')
    elif re.search('={80}',line) and inColor:
        colorstrings[thisColor] += (line + '\n')
        inColor = False
    elif inColor:
        colorstrings[thisColor] += (line + '\n')                
    else:
        continue

for (h,s) in zip(colorheaders,colorstrings):
    fout.write(">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\n")
    fout.write(h.upper()+'\n')
    fout.write("Lines:"+ str(s.count('\n')))
    fout.write('\n')
    fout.write("<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<\n")
    fout.write(s)

f.close()
fout.close()