Idea: shjson

[kseistrup]

The shyaml script is very useful. You could easily make a JSON version, shjson, of the script:

--- shyaml  2013-03-29 19:42:05.893082254 +0100
+++ shjson  2013-03-29 21:13:47.920416719 +0100
@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@
 ##   nosetests

 import sys
-import yaml
+import simplejson
 import os.path

 EXNAME = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])

+json2python = lambda fp: simplejson.load(fp, encoding='utf-8')

 def mget(dct, key, default=None):
     """Allow to get values deep in a dict with doted keys.
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@
     if action in ["get-value", "get-type"]:
         key_value = "" if len(args) == 1 else args[1]
         default = args[2] if len(args) > 2 else ""
-        contents = yaml.load(sys.stdin)
+        contents = json2python(sys.stdin)
         try:
             value = mget(contents, key_value, default)
         except IndexError:
@@ -72,8 +73,13 @@
             die("Error: invalid path %r." % key_value)
         if action == "get-value":
             if not isinstance(value, (basestring, int, float)):
-                value = yaml.dump(value, default_flow_style=False)
-            print value,
+                value = simplejson.dumps(
+                    value,
+                    ensure_ascii = False,
+                    indent = 2,
+                    sort_keys = sort
+                ).encode('utf-8')
+            print value
             return 0
         else:  ## action == "get-type"
             print "struct" if isinstance(value, dict) else \
@@ -81,7 +87,7 @@
                   type(value).__name__
             return 0
     if action == "keys":
-        for k in yaml.load(sys.stdin).keys():
+        for k in sorted(json2python(sys.stdin).keys()):
             print k
         return 0
     die("Error: Invalid argument.\n%s" % usage)

Or something like that…

[vaab]

Thanks, that's of some interest ! The biggest concerns I could have to integrate this is to find a project name to hold both scripts ;) . Any ideas ?

I would naturally put them in the same project as they share 90% of their small code.

[kseistrup]

Hm, good question… I'm blank.