Python3 library for parsing MAINTAINERS files. It can parse the non toml formats listed at lgtm.
import maintainers
all_maintainers = maintainers.parse('/path/to/MAINTAINERS')
for maintainer in all_maintainers:
print('Name: {}'.format(maintainer.name)) # Name: Jane Developer
print('Login: {}'.format(maintainer.login)) # Login: janesgithub_username
print('Email: {}'.format(maintainer.email)) # Email: jdeveloper@example.com
print(maintainer) # name=Jane Developer, login=janesgithub_username, email=jdeveloper@example.com
print(maintainer.json()) # '{"name": "Jane Developer", "login": "janesgithub_username", "email": "jdeveloper@example.com"}'
jane = maintainer.Maintainer(name='Jane Developer', login='janesgithub_username', email="jdeveloper@example.com")
jill = maintainer.Maintainer(name='Jill Engineer', login='jillsgithub_username', email="jengineer@example.com")
print(all_maintainers.is_maintainer(jane)) # True
print(all_maintainers.is_maintainer(jill)) # False