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Message: [QUOTE="bearophileHUGS, post: 3870301"] Marius Retegan: I have wasted some time trying to create a regex for that. But it's better to use normal code. Iterate on the lines, keep a dict, and when you find a string that doesn't start with whitespace, use it to create a new key-value into the dict, where the key is the stripped line and the value is an empty dict. Then you can enter a sub loop or set a "inside" boolean variable, to denote you are in a different part of the state machine. When you find lines that start with a space, you can put add them as key-value into the latest dict (so you have to keep the key name in the superdict, or more efficiently you can keep your subdict on a side, and you can add it only at the end when you see a line "end" with no leading spaces. When you find such "end" you can exit the sub loop or rest the "inside" boolean. Overall if's just few lines of code, much shorter than my description of the algorithm. Bye, bearophile [/QUOTE]