def getobjnamelist(txt):
"""get the list of object names from the text of the idd file"""
txtc = eplusdata.removecomment(txt, '!')
txtsc = eplusdata.removecomment(txtc, '\\')
lines = txtsc.splitlines()
lines = [line.strip() for line in lines]
lines = [line for line in lines if line != '']
txtsc = '\n'.join(lines)
blocks = txtsc.split(';')
blocks1 = [block.split(',') for block in blocks]
names = [block[0].strip() for block in blocks1]
names = [name.upper() for name in names if name != '']
return names
def getcommlst(txt):
"""get commlst
txt is the text of the idd file"""
txtc = eplusdata.removecomment(txt, '!')
iobj = getobjlines(txtc)
lines = txtc.splitlines()
objblock =[]
for k, (i, obj) in enumerate(iobj):
try:
theblock = lines[iobj[k][0]:iobj[k+1][0]]
objblock.append(theblock)
except IndexError, e:
theblock = lines[iobj[k][0]:]
objblock.append(theblock)