Read & write Java .properties files
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javaproperties provides support for reading & writing Java .properties files (both the simple line-oriented format and XML) with a simple API based on the json module — though, for recovering Java addicts, it also includes a Properties class intended to match the behavior of Java 8’s java.util.Properties as much as is Pythonically possible.
Previous versions of javaproperties included command-line programs for basic manipulation of .properties files. As of version 0.4.0, these programs have been split off into a separate package, javaproperties-cli.
Installation
javaproperties requires Python 3.6 or higher. Just use pip for Python 3 (You have pip, right?) to install javaproperties:
python3 -m pip install javaproperties
Examples
Dump some keys & values (output order not guaranteed):
>>> properties = {"key": "value", "host:port": "127.0.0.1:80", "snowman": "☃", "goat": "🐐"} >>> print(javaproperties.dumps(properties)) #Mon Sep 26 14:57:44 EDT 2016 key=value goat=\ud83d\udc10 host\:port=127.0.0.1\:80 snowman=\u2603
Load some keys & values:
>>> javaproperties.loads(''' ... #Mon Sep 26 14:57:44 EDT 2016 ... key = value ... goat: \\ud83d\\udc10 ... host\\:port=127.0.0.1:80 ... #foo = bar ... snowman ☃ ... ''') {'goat': '🐐', 'host:port': '127.0.0.1:80', 'key': 'value', 'snowman': '☃'}
Dump some properties to a file and read them back in again:
>>> with open('example.properties', 'w', encoding='latin-1') as fp: ... javaproperties.dump(properties, fp) ... >>> with open('example.properties', 'r', encoding='latin-1') as fp: ... javaproperties.load(fp) ... {'goat': '🐐', 'host:port': '127.0.0.1:80', 'key': 'value', 'snowman': '☃'}
Sort the properties you’re dumping:
>>> print(javaproperties.dumps(properties, sort_keys=True)) #Mon Sep 26 14:57:44 EDT 2016 goat=\ud83d\udc10 host\:port=127.0.0.1\:80 key=value snowman=\u2603
Turn off the timestamp:
>>> print(javaproperties.dumps(properties, timestamp=None)) key=value goat=\ud83d\udc10 host\:port=127.0.0.1\:80 snowman=\u2603
Use your own timestamp (automatically converted to local time):
>>> print(javaproperties.dumps(properties, timestamp=1234567890)) #Fri Feb 13 18:31:30 EST 2009 key=value goat=\ud83d\udc10 host\:port=127.0.0.1\:80 snowman=\u2603
Dump as XML:
>>> print(javaproperties.dumps_xml(properties)) <!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd"> <properties> <entry key="key">value</entry> <entry key="goat">🐐</entry> <entry key="host:port">127.0.0.1:80</entry> <entry key="snowman">☃</entry> </properties>
New in v0.6.0: Dump Unicode characters as-is instead of escaping them:
>>> print(javaproperties.dumps(properties, ensure_ascii=False)) #Tue Feb 25 19:13:27 EST 2020 key=value goat=🐐 host\:port=127.0.0.1\:80 snowman=☃
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