Issue 7230 - python-abp line2dict vectorization

abp/filters/rpy.py

Index: abp/filters/rpy.py
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--- a/abp/filters/rpy.py
+++ b/abp/filters/rpy.py
@@ -93,3 +93,31 @@
 
     """
     return strings2utf8(tuple2dict(parse_line(text, mode)))
+
+
+def lines2dicts(string_list, mode='body'):
+    """Convert a list of filterlist strings to a dictionary.
+
+    All strings in the output dictionary will be UTF8 byte strings. This is
+    necessary to prevent unicode encoding errors in rPython conversion layer.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    string_list: iterable of str
+        Each string in the list can be an empty line, include instruction, or
+        filter. If the mode is 'start', headers and metadata can also be
+        parsed.
+    mode: str
+        Parsing mode (see `abp.filters.parser.parse_line`).
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    list of dict
+        With the parsing results and all strings converted to utf8 byte
+        strings.
+
+    """
+    result = []
+    for string in string_list:
+        result.append(line2dict(string, mode))
+    return result