Tab-separated key=value format parser

tskv.py

def parse_line(line):
    return dict(i.split('=', 1) for i in line.split('\t') if i)


def loads(s):
    cur, prev = 0, 0 
    while True:
        cur = s.find("\n", prev)
        if cur == -1:
            d = parse_line(s[prev:cur])
            if d:
                yield d 
            break
        yield parse_line(s[prev:cur])
        prev = cur + 1 


def load(f):
    for line in f:
        yield parse_line(line[:-1])