dack 0.1.3

Dack is a file format that can be stored in any text file, but will default to .cfg.

Dack primarily stores key value pairs or dictionaries. The syntax are thusly:
&>KEY:VALUE

Anything after &> and before : is a key.
Anything after the first : and before the next &> is a value.

The key may contain anything except &> or :, leading or trailing whitespace will by stripped.
The value may contain anything except &>, leading or trailing whitespace will by stripped.

If there is a &> without an associated : then it will be ignored, effectively acting as comments.
If the file contains duplicate key entries the first one will be used and the rest ignored with a warning.

This format has many benefits:

• Very simple and readable
• Very flexible and hard to break
• Doesn't feel tedious to type in
• Works with any text document filetype
• Highly portable, won't break being posted in markdown or on social media

Dack has 10 public functions that are outlined here:

dack.to_pydict will convert a string of the Dack format into a python dict.
dack.from_pydict will convert a python dict into a string of the Dack format.
dack.save dack.load will save or load a dict to or from a file using that file's path.
dack.saveas dack.savefile dack.loadfrom dack.loadfile are like overrides for the save and load functions;
saveas and loadfrom only need the name of the file, savefile and loadfile needs the file name with it's extension.
dack.savebatch will save a dict of dictionaries as separate files in a directory.
dack.loadbatch will load files in a directory and return a dict of dictionaries, option to load recursively or not.