vml-parser 0.0.6

velocitous markup language to JSON parser

vml

velocitous markup language

(Totally not related with VML-SVG)
This is a JSON parser for a markup language, if you want to call it like that, that i found myself using while jolting notes in the fastest most velocitous, and laziest way that i could think of... It goes pretty much like this:

element 1
	things
		dog
		[x] snacks
			[ ] apple
			pear
		house
	names
		james
		alfred

[ ] element 2
	foo
	bar
	baz

That translates to this bulky JSON. You see, it makes JSON look bulky!!!

[
  {
    "element 1": [
      {
        "things": [
          "dog",
          {
            "snacks": [
              {
                "apple": [],
                "checked": false
              },
              "pear"
            ],
            "checked": true
          },
          "house"
        ]
      },
      {
        "names": [
          "james",
          "alfred"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "element 2": [
      "foo",
      "bar",
      "baz"
    ],
    "checked": false
  }
]

vml uses tabs to differentiate the hierarchical level of the current line... i think you got what i mean. Plus, you can also add checkboxes to every line with "[ ]", and you can check it with "[x]", and all this translates to a "checked" property in the JSON representation. It's easy to write vml with vi, for example you might check an empty checkbox with rx and move around tabulations efficiently with >> or <<. In fact, this should really have been called tml, as in tab markup language, but unfortunately, that resembled too much TOML, dammit you Tom!!
Install this with pip3 install vml-parser
Import it with from vml_parser import vml, so you that you can access the vml.parse(s : list[str]) -> list[Element] method. With that you can easily json.loads(str(vml.parse(s : list[str]))) -> object. You now can also dump your python objects to a vml-formatted string with vml.dump(obj: object) -> str, and maybe save it to a file for later use!
You will also get the vml command line script for free! you can pipe it to stdout or you can pass it any number of filenames for it to read.