gatk-3.8/python/FlatFileTable.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys, itertools

def record_generator(filename, sep="\t", skip_n_lines=0):
    """Given a file with field headers on the first line and records on subsequent lines,
generates a dictionary for each line keyed by the header fields"""
    fin = open(filename)

    for i in range(skip_n_lines): # Skip a number of lines
        fin.readline()

    header = fin.readline().rstrip().split(sep) # Pull off header
    
    for line in fin: # 
        fields = line.rstrip().split(sep)
        record = dict(itertools.izip(header, fields))
        yield record

def record_matches_values(record, match_field_values):
    for match_field, match_values in match_field_values:
        if record[match_field] not in match_values:
            return False
    return True