# L-17 MCS 260 Fri 19 Feb 2010 : bklist2dict

# Converts existing formats of books from
#
#  [True, 1, 'Computer Science.  An Overview']
#  [False, 2, 'Python Programming in Context']
#
# into
#
#  {'available':True, 'key':1, 'title':'Computer Science.  An Overview'}
#  {'available':False, 'key':2, 'title':'Python Programming in Context'}

infile = open('bookslists','r')
outfile = open('booksdicts','w')
while True:
   s = infile.readline()
   if s == '': break
   L = eval(s)
   d = {'available':L[0], 'key':L[1], \
        'title':L[2] }
   outfile.write(str(d) + '\n')
infile.close()
outfile.close()