Some simple MacOS plist facilities. Supports binary plist files, which the stdlib plistlib module does not.

Latest release 20221228: ingest_plist_dict: bugfix initial setting for key.

Function export_xml_to_plist(E, fp=None, fmt='binary1')

Export the content of an etree.Element to a plist file.

Parameters:

• E: the source etree.Element.
• fp: the output file or filename (if a str).
• fmt: the output format, default "binary1". The format must be a valid value for the -convert option of plutil(1).

Function import_as_etree(plist)

Load an Apple plist and return an etree.Element.

Paramaters:

• plist: the source plist: data if bytes, filename if str, otherwise a file object open for binary read.

Function ingest_plist(plist, recurse=False, resolve=False)

Ingest an Apple plist and return as a PListDict. Trivial wrapper for import_as_etree and ingest_plist_etree.

Parameters:

• recurse: unpack any bytes objects as plists
• resolve: resolve unpacked bytes plists' '$objects' entries

Function ingest_plist_array(pa)

Ingest a plist , returning a Python list.

Function ingest_plist_dict(pd)

Ingest a plist Element, returning a PListDict.

Function ingest_plist_elem(e)

Ingest a plist Element, converting various types to native Python objects. Unhandled types remain as the original Element.

Function ingest_plist_etree(plist_etree)

Recursively a plist's ElementTree into a native Python structure. This returns a PListDict, a mapping of the plists's top dict with attribute access to key values.

Function is_iphone()

Test if we're on an iPhone.

Class ObjectClassDefinition

A representation of a "class" object, used in resolve_object() for otherwise unrecognised objects which contain a $classname member.

Class ObjectClassInstance

A representation of a "class instance", used in resolve_object() for objects with a $class member.

Class PListDict(builtins.dict)

A mapping for a plist, subclassing dict, which also allows access to the elements by attribute if that does not conflict with a dict method.

Function readPlist(path, binary=False)

An old routine I made to use inside my jailbroken iPhone.

Function resolve_object(objs, i)

Resolve an object definition from structures like an iPhoto album queryData object list.

Function writePlist(rootObj, path, binary=False)

An old routine I made to use inside my jailbroken iPhone.

Release Log

Release 20221228: ingest_plist_dict: bugfix initial setting for key.

Release 20220606: Initial PyPI release.