pyhcl 0.1.2

HCL configuration parser for python

pyhcl

Implements a parser for HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) in Python. This implementation aims to be compatible with the original golang version of the parser.

The grammar and many of the tests/fixtures were copied/ported from the golang parser into pyhcl.

Installation

pip install pyhcl

Usage

This module is intended to be used in mostly the same way that one would use the json module in python, and load/loads/dumps are implemented.

import hcl

with open('file.hcl', r) as fp:
    obj = hcl.load(fp)

Currently the dumps function outputs JSON, and not HCL.

Syntax

• Single line comments start with # or //

• Multi-line comments are wrapped in /* and */

• Values are assigned with the syntax key = value (whitespace doesn’t matter). The value can be any primitive: a string, number, boolean, object, or list.

• Strings are double-quoted and can contain any UTF-8 characters. Example: "Hello, World"

• Numbers are assumed to be base 10. If you prefix a number with 0x, it is treated as a hexadecimal. If it is prefixed with 0, it is treated as an octal. Numbers can be in scientific notation: “1e10”.

• Boolean values: true, false, on, off, yes, no.

• Arrays can be made by wrapping it in []. Example: ["foo", "bar", 42]. Arrays can contain primitives and other arrays, but cannot contain objects. Objects must use the block syntax shown below.

Objects and nested objects are created using the structure shown below:

variable "ami" {
    description = "the AMI to use"
}

Testing

To run the tests:

pip install -r testing-requirements.txt
tests/run_tests.sh

Authors

Dustin Spicuzza ([e-mail])

Note: This project is not associated with Hashicorp