keyedarchivelib 1.0.2

Generate and parse NSKeyedArchive files

keyedarchivelib

Basic Python (>=3.6) library to generate and parse NSKeyedArchive files.

Installation

Install with pip:

pip3 install keyedarchivelib

Usage

The keyedarchivelib module has the same interface as the plistlib standard library module:

load, loads, dump, and dumps have the same function signatures as plistlib minus the fmt option, which is not available since it's always binary.

The keyedarchivelib module includes type hints.

For convenience, examples are provided below:

Reading (load & loads)

from keyedarchivelib import load

with open("example.plist", 'rb') as fp:
    pl = load(fp)
print(pl["test"])

Writing (dump & dumps)

from keyedarchivelib import dump, dumps

example_dict = {
    "test": 1
}
with open("example.plist", 'wb') as fp:
    dump(example_dict, fp)

# ~~~ OR ~~~

print(dumps(example_dict))

Note on compatibility

For versions below 3.8, plistlib doesn't support all the plist features used by NSKeyedArchiver. A compatibility hot-patching layer is used to support these lesser versions of Python. This library has not endured thorough testing beyond the latest versions of Python 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8. Please open issues for any observed problems!