source: people/peter.buschman/backup_monitoring/parsing/parsers/bperrcode/txt2py.py

import re

regex = re.compile('^(\d+) (.*)$')
pad = ''

filename = 'descriptions.txt'

file = open(filename, 'r')

print('descriptions = {')

for line in file:
    line = line[:-1]
    match = regex.match(line)
    if match:
        code = match.group(1)
        description = match.group(2)
        #description = description.replace("'", "\'")
        print("    %s'%s' : \"%s\"," % (pad, code, description))

print('}')

file.close()