alias splitting

Will,

I am working on a graphical form to help with the
creation/deletion/modification of aliases.

I have the adding and creating of alias's working from the wxPython
form.. but I have run into something that i was wondering about.

I want the form to be able to update itself and show all the aliases and
actions that are defined.  When my form is displayed, I want it to query
the lyntin alias manager and parse the results.

I have been using the following code to get a list of the aliases.

 ses = exported.get_current_session()
 am = exported.get_manager("alias")
 defined_aliases = am.getInfo(ses)

This returns a list such as...
['alias {flop} {sit}', 'alias {unflop} {stand}']

now I can simply take each element.. trim off the 'alias {' , search for
the first '} {', and continue parsing it by hand...

But I was wondering if there was a method already made that will send
back the alias and its expansion.  Or does someone have a good code
snippet to do this a bit more elegantly than my brute force method...

I have been searching through the alias.py file.. and also through the
utils module.. but so far I havent found anything that does it..

I'm probably overlooking the obvious.. 

Bryan Muir


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