Short program that turns VMF files into Python dicts.
In order to use it in a Python program, move vmf_deserialiser.py to the folder of your program and include
import vmf_deserialiser
with the rest of your imports in the file. The sole function is deserialise_vmf(), which takes a string that specifies the VMF file's path as an argument. It will return a dictionary representing the VMF that includes all of its structures (e.g world{}) as dictionaries and substructures (e.g solid{}) as nested dictionaries within those dictionaries representing structures.
Duplicated names are handled by inserting a "&n" extension on the end of the structure's name where "n" is the number of duplicate structures (beginning with n = 1 or n = 0 if settings["tagFirstInstance"] is set to True). The first occurrence of a structure will have no name extension if settings["tagFirstInstance"] is set to False.