hostsmgr 0.2.5

API for manage hosts file

hostsmgr (Hosts Manager)

API for manage hosts file

• Free software: Apache-2.0

• Documentation: https://hostsmgr.readthedocs.io.

Features

Usage

from hostsmgr import HostsMgr
from hostsmgr.hostsmgr import guess_hosts_path
from hostsmgr.conditions import Any, All, IPAddress, Host, InlineComment

mgr = HostsMgr()

# Load system hosts file
mgr.load(guess_hosts_path())

# Save hosts to another place (Must open with text mode !)
mgr.save(open('/etc/hosts.old', 'w'))

# Save hosts to string with hosts file format
hosts_string = mgr.saves()

# Find all hosts entries that with 127.0.0.1 address
entries = mgr.find(IPAddress('127.0.0.1'))

# Find all entries that contained specific host
entries = mgr.find(Host('localhost'))

# Find all entries that contained specificed ip address and host both
entries = mgr.find(IPAddress('127.0.0.1') & Host('localhost'))

# Find all entries that contained either hosts
entries = mgr.find(Host('ip6-localhost') | Host('localhost'))

# Find all entries that contained either hosts, another method
entries = mgr.find(Any(Host('ip6-localhost'), Host('localhost')))

# Find all entries that contained both hosts
entries = mgr.find(Host('ip6-localhost') & Host('localhost'))

# Find all entries that contained both hosts, another method
entries = mgr.find(All(Host('ip6-localhost'), Host('localhost')))

# Find all entries that contained target inline comment
entries = mgr.find(InlineComment('THIS_IS_A_TAG'))

# Find only one entry that contained target inline comment
entries = mgr.find(InlineComment('THIS_IS_A_TAG'), at_most=1)

# Remove an entry that found by find()
mgr.remove(entry)

# Remove all hosts from hosts entries
mgr.remove_hosts(['localhost', 'ip6-localhost'])

# Remove all entries by inline comment exactly matched
mgr.remove_by_inline_comment(InlineComment('TAG_FOR_EXAMPLE'))

# Remove all entries by inline comment partial matched
mgr.remove_by_inline_comment(InlineComment('TAG_FOR_EXAMPLE', partial=True))

Credits

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History

0.0.1 (2018-04-15)

• First release on PyPI.