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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
-rw-r--r-- | Lib/plistlib.py | 29 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/plistlib.py b/Lib/plistlib.py index 5460e2b..fbba791 100644 --- a/Lib/plistlib.py +++ b/Lib/plistlib.py @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ r"""plistlib.py -- a tool to generate and parse MacOSX .plist files. -The PropertList (.plist) file format is a simple XML pickle supporting +The property list (.plist) file format is a simple XML pickle supporting basic object types, like dictionaries, lists, numbers and strings. Usually the top level object is a dictionary. @@ -16,32 +16,31 @@ To work with plist data in bytes objects, you can use readPlistFromBytes() and writePlistToBytes(). Values can be strings, integers, floats, booleans, tuples, lists, -dictionaries, Data or datetime.datetime objects. String values (including -dictionary keys) may be unicode strings -- they will be written out as -UTF-8. +dictionaries (but only with string keys), Data or datetime.datetime objects. +String values (including dictionary keys) have to be unicode strings -- they +will be written out as UTF-8. The <data> plist type is supported through the Data class. This is a -thin wrapper around a Python bytes object. +thin wrapper around a Python bytes object. Use 'Data' if your strings +contain control characters. Generate Plist example: pl = dict( - aString="Doodah", - aList=["A", "B", 12, 32.1, [1, 2, 3]], + aString = "Doodah", + aList = ["A", "B", 12, 32.1, [1, 2, 3]], aFloat = 0.1, anInt = 728, - aDict=dict( - anotherString="<hello & hi there!>", - aUnicodeValue=u'M\xe4ssig, Ma\xdf', - aTrueValue=True, - aFalseValue=False, + aDict = dict( + anotherString = "<hello & hi there!>", + aUnicodeValue = "M\xe4ssig, Ma\xdf", + aTrueValue = True, + aFalseValue = False, ), someData = Data(b"<binary gunk>"), someMoreData = Data(b"<lots of binary gunk>" * 10), aDate = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.gmtime())), ) - # unicode keys are possible, but a little awkward to use: - pl[u'\xc5benraa'] = "That was a unicode key." writePlist(pl, fileName) Parse Plist example: @@ -220,7 +219,7 @@ class PlistWriter(DumbXMLWriter): elif isinstance(value, (tuple, list)): self.writeArray(value) else: - raise TypeError("unsuported type: %s" % type(value)) + raise TypeError("unsupported type: %s" % type(value)) def writeData(self, data): self.beginElement("data") |