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+# UploadFormat Parser -- test version
+#                                       -- ideamonk
+
+class Submission():
+  """
+  A helper class for bulk uploads. It parses the given chunk of bulk
+  upload and tries to submit them to PyKata
+  """
+  def __init__(self, bulk_text):
+    # initialize everything as default/blank as some things might not be
+    # present in submission
+    self.data_dict = dict()
+    self.bulk_text = bulk_text
+    self.multiline_fields = ('description', 'examples')
+    self.data_dict['user_id'] = ''
+
+  def __getitem__(self, key):
+    try:
+      return self.data_dict[key]
+    except :
+      return None
+
+  def __setitem__(self, key, item):
+    # mapping to match form submission for code reuse
+    if key=='pubTests':
+      key = 'tests'
+    if key=='privTests':
+      key='other_tests'
+    if key=='userID':
+      key='user_id'
+
+    self.data_dict[key] = item
+
+  def __str__(self):
+    return str(self.bulk_text)
+
+  def parse(self):
+    """ Parses a problem submission into data fillable in the submission
+    form
+    """
+    chunks = self.bulk_text.split('#-')
+    for chunk in chunks[1:]:
+      # ^^ ignores the first comment line of the problem
+      chunk_key, chunk_data = chunk.split(':',1)
+      chunk_key = chunk_key.strip()
+      if chunk_key in self.multiline_fields:
+        # these are data surrounded in triple quotes, single or double
+        chunk_data = eval(chunk_data).strip('\r\n')
+      else:
+        chunk_data = chunk_data.strip().strip('\r\n')
+      self[chunk_key] = chunk_data
+
+  def talk(self):
+    """ Just a testing function, a submission talks about itself to everyone
+    """
+    print "Hi I am a submission problem on PyKata,"
+    print "Let me tell you something about myself - "
+    print "I was created by -", self['userID']
+    print "My name is -", self['name']
+    print "I belong to these categories -", self['categories']
+    print "Here, something more about myself --"
+    print self['description']
+    print "---------------------------------------"
+    print "My solution --"
+    print self['solution']
+    print "----------------------------------------"
+    print "My skeleton --"
+    print self['skeleton']
+    print "----------------------------------------"
+    print "Public Tests --"
+    print self['pubTests']
+    print "----------------------------------------"
+    print "Private Tests --"
+    print self['privTests']
+    print "----------------------------------------"
+    print "\n So tell me something about you too?"
+
+
+def test_submission_parse():
+  import urllib2
+#  example_file = urllib2.urlopen('http://ideamonk.in/code/foo.py').read()
+  example_file = open('/home/amit/Downloads/foo.py').read()
+  example_submissions = example_file.split('#---')[1:-1]
+  # ^^ ignore the first null string and last __main__ test code
+  print example_submissions  
+  example_submissions = [ Submission(x) for x in example_submissions ]
+  
+  for key, a_submission in enumerate(example_submissions):
+    print "Problem #", key, "parsed as --"
+    print "*************************************************************"
+    a_submission.parse()
+    a_submission.talk()
+
+if __name__=='__main__':
+  # testing
+  test_submission_parse()
+