[Pythonmac-SIG] plistservices 3 is available

[Sarwat Khan]

I've released plistservices v3 at http://sarwat.net/opensource/

The main feature it adds is that it indents the XML output as 
CoreFoundation does. I think the only difference in the output is that 
CF will put newlines at well-placed spots in the CFData objects, and I 
didn't want to bother.

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The reason why it took so long to do indenting was a matter of 
principle. I was sick of the thought of doing yet another 
XML/HTML-output chunk of code that passes a stupid indent param along 
the recursion. At this point, it's been 2+ years since I've had to do 
that, so it doesn't have the same sting anymore (I am noticing however, 
that the more I think about the fact that I did it, the more it bugs 
me). Also, I found myself not wanting to use plistservices for some 
things because of the fugly XML it produced.

This is actually version 4. Version 3 has been sitting on my computers 
since 2003, and apparently I forgot to release it. Back then I modified 
it so it was a nice replacement for mx.DateTime in MySQLdb's times.py. 
That was back when MySQLdb was at version 0.94; MySQLdb was then 
assuming Python 2.2, which doesn't have the datetime module.

The fact that I didn't put newlines in CFData XML is starting to gnaw 
at my brain. We'll see what happens.

Anyway, enjoy.

Sarwat.

{sarwat khan : http://sarwat.net}