Library for working with Valve's VDF text format
Project description
VDF is Valve’s KeyValue text file format
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/KeyValues
The module works just like json to convert VDF to a dict, and vise-versa.
Known Issues
order is not preserved due to using dict
there are known files that contain duplicate keys
Install
You can grab the latest release from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/vdf or via pip
pip install vdf
Usage
import vdf
# parsing vdf from file or string
d = vdf.load(open('file.txt'))
d = vdf.loads(vdf_text)
d = vdf.parse(open('file.txt'))
d = vdf.parse(vdf_text)
# dumping dict as vdf to string
vdf_text = vdf.dumps(d)
indented_vdf = vdf.dumps(d, pretty=True)
# dumping dict as vdf to file
vdf.dump(d, open('file2.txt','w'), pretty=True)
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