pyplist 0.0.5

A package for managing 'Apple PList'-files in XML-format.

What is this?

This is a package for reading, writing and managing Apple PLIST-files, in XML-Format, with Python 3.

Installation

pip3 install pyplist

Examples

Reading plist files

Reading XML-PLists from file

from pyplist import XMLParser

obj = XMLParser.parseFile("path_to_file")

# ... use obj as a normal python object

Reading XML-PLists from string

from pyplist import XMLParser

obj = XMLParser.parse("some_loaded_string")

# ... use obj as a normal python object

Reading Binary plists

Coming Soon

Writing objects to plist files

Writing XML-PLists to file

Objects can be written to xml plists with:

from pyplist import XMLParser
from pyplist import XMLWriter

obj = XMLParser.parseFile(<path_to_plist_file>)

with open(<path_to_output_file>, 'wt') as outstream:
  XMLWriter.write(obj, outstream[, indentString=None, level=0])
  outstream.close()

The parameters are:

• obj - The object being serialized

• outstream - The output stream to which the object will be serialized. If this is None, then a new string outputstream is written to and returned.

• indentString - Indentation string to be used. If this value is None then no indentation or pretification is applied. Otherwise this is used.

• level - The level to start with when serializing. Each child node is indented an extra level (if indentString is not None).

Writing to Binary plists

Coming Soon.