a def to turn pesterfish object into an associative object

fix_pesterfish.py

def fix_pesterfish(data):
  result = {}
  if type(data)==list:
    for d in data:
      try:
        result[d['tag']]=fix_pesterfish(d['children'])
      except:
        try:
          result[d['tag']]=d['text']
        except:
          try:
            if d['attributes']:
              if type(result[d['tag']]) != list:
                l = []
                result[d['tag']] = l
              result[d['tag']].append(d['attributes'])
          except:
            result[d['tag']]=''
  else:
    try:
      result[data['tag']]=fix_pesterfish(data['children'])
    except:
      try:
        result[data['tag']]=data['text']
      except:
        result[data['tag']]=''
  return result