Question

I’m writing a script to convert very simple function documentation to XML in python. The format I’m using would convert:

date_time_of(date) Returns the time part of the indicated date-time value, setting the date part to 0.

to:

<item name="date_time_of">

<arg>(date)</arg>

<help> Returns the time part of the indicated date-time value, setting the date part to 0.</help>

</item>

So far it works great (the XML I posted above was generated from the program) but the problem is that it should be working with several lines of documentation pasted, but it only works for the first line pasted into the application. I checked the pasted documentation in Notepad++ and the lines did indeed have CRLF at the end, so what is my problem?
Here is my code:

mainText = input("Enter your text to convert:\r\n")

try:
    for line in mainText.split('\r\n'):
        name = line.split("(")[0]
        arg = line.split("(")[1]
        arg = arg.split(")")[0]
        hlp = line.split(")",1)[1]
        print('<item name="%s">\r\n<arg>(%s)</arg>\r\n<help>%s</help>\r\n</item>\r\n' % (name,arg,hlp))
except:
    print("Error!")

Any idea of what the issue is here?
Thanks.

Answer 1

input() only reads one line.

Try this. Enter a blank line to stop collecting lines.

lines = []
while True:
    line = input('line: ')
    if line:
        lines.append(line)
    else:
        break
print(lines)