# L-22 MCS 260 Wed 17 Oct 2007 : bklist2dict
#
# converts existing formats of books from
#
#  [True, 1, 'The Art & Craft of Computing']
#  [False, 2, 'Making Use of Python']
#
# into
#
#  {'available':True, 'key':1, 'title':'The Art & Craft of Computing'}
#  {'available':False, 'key':2, 'title':'Making Use of Python'}
#
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()