trivial-records 0.0.4

Tiny library that parses and generates text containing lists of records.

Trivial Records

A tiny library to parse and generate text containing lists of records.

Why not just JSON?

It's a bit more convenient for the human; easier to write and read this:

Refactoring
author Martin Fowler
publisher Addison-Wesley

A Philosophy of Software Design
author John Ousterhout
publisher Yaknyam Press

than to write and read this:

{"Refactoring": {"author": "Martin Fowler", "publisher": "Addison-Wesley"}, "A Philosophy of Software Design": {"author": "John Ousterhout", "publisher": "Yaknyam Press"}}

or write this:

{
  "Refactoring": {
    "author": "Martin Fowler",
    "publisher": "Addison-Wesley"
  },
  "A Philosophy of Software Design": {
    "author": "John Ousterhout",
    "publisher": "Yaknyam Press"
  }
}

What does it offer?

Not much, it's really trivial.

Functions stream_to_record_dictionary and string_to_record_dictionary give you a Python dictionary.

Functions record_dictionary_to_string_generator and record_dictionary_to_string take the Python dictionary and give you a string.