YamlTable

Documentation: https://wolfgangwazzlestrauss.github.io/yamltable

Source Code: https://github.com/wolfgangwazzlestrauss/yamltable

YamlTable is a Python command line utility for working with YAML files organized similar to a relational database table. It supports YAML files organized as a list of dictionaries, which share key names and value types. YamlTable provides commands for listing, searching, sorting, etc. data from the supported files.

Supported YAML File Organizations

YamlTable works with YAML files organized as a list of dictionaries with similar key names and value types.

- name: awscli
  description: Amazon Web Services command line client
  website: https://aws.amazon.com/
- name: glances
  description: operating system monitoring interface
  website: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

The JSON schema support is included for YAML files organized as:

schema:
  $schema: http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#
  description: pipx package metadata schema
  type: object
  properties:
    name:
      type: string
      pattern: "^[\\w-]+$"
    description:
      type: string
    website:
      type: string
  required:
    - name
    - description
    - website
  additionalProperties: false
rows:
  - name: awscli
    description: Amazon Web Services command line client
    website: https://aws.amazon.com/
  - name: glances
    description: operating system monitoring interface
    website: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

Getting Started

Installation

YamlTable can be installed for Python 3.6+ with pipx.

pipx install yamltable

To reuse its library functions install with pip.

pip install --user yamltable

The latest release can also be downloaded and installed from GitHub.

pip install --user https://github.com/wolfgangwazzlestrauss/yamltable/releases/latest/download/yamltable-py3-none-any.whl

Commands

YamlTable provides the following commands for working with YAML files:

• list: list dictionary key values
• search: search dictionaries by key and value
• sort: sort dictionaries by key and value
• validate: validate that dictionaries conform to the given JSON schema

Contributing

Since YamlTable is in an early development phase, it is not currently open to contributors.

License

Licensed under the MIT license.