iterstring

Simple class that allows writing lists and dicts as heredoc strings

• Write lists as strings with one line per element

• Same for dictionaries, but use first token on each line as key

Features

• Handles comments (using # characters)

• Strips away extraneous whitespace with reasonable defaults (configurable)

• Coerce items to numbers where possible (see coerce)

• Iterating over the object treats it like a list

• Indexing the object treats it like a dictionary

• listr and distr helper functions provide simple interfaces

Examples

A simple use case:

>>> from iterstring import listr # or distr
>>> some_list = listr('''
item one # with a comment
  2
three
''')
>>> some_list
['item one', 2, 'three']
>>> type(some_list)
<class 'list'>

Using the class directly:

>>> from iterstring import Istr
>>> asdf = Istr('''
item one # with a comment
  2
three
''')
>>> asdf.to_list()
['item one', 2, 'three']
>>> type(asdf)
<class 'iterstring.Istr'>

>>> [x for x in asdf]
['item one', 2, 'three']

>>> fdsa = Istr('''
item one # with a comment
  2 some other value
key3 3.14159
''')
>>> asdf.to_dict()
{'item': 'one', 2: 'some other value', 'key3': 3.14159}
>>> asdf.to_dict(coerce=False)
{'item': 'one', '2': 'some other value', 'key3': '3.14159'}

License

• Free software: MIT license

Documentation

• https://iterstring.readthedocs.io/

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.