Zish Python ANTLR

A Python library for the Zish format format, released under the MIT-0 licence.

Installation

• Create a virtual environment: python3 -m venv venv
• Activate the virtual environment: source venv/bin/activate
• Install: pip install zish_antlr

Quickstart

To go from a Python object to an Zish string use zish.dumps. To go from a Zish string to a Python object use zish.loads. Eg.

>>> from zish import loads, dumps
>>> from datetime import datetime, timezone
>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>>
>>> # Take a Python object
>>> book = {
...     'title': 'A Hero of Our Time',
...     'read_date': datetime(2017, 7, 16, 14, 5, tzinfo=timezone.utc),
...     'would_recommend': True,
...     'description': None,
...     'number_of_novellas': 5,
...     'price': Decimal('7.99'),
...     'weight': 6.88,
...     'key': b'kshhgrl',
...     'tags': [
...       'russian',
...       'novel',
...       '19th century',
...     ],
... }
>>>
>>> # Output it as an Zish string
>>> zish_str = dumps(book)
>>> print(zish_str)
{
  "description": null,
  "key": 'a3NoaGdybA==',
  "number_of_novellas": 5,
  "price": 7.99,
  "read_date": 2017-07-16T14:05:00Z,
  "tags": [
    "russian",
    "novel",
    "19th century",
  ],
  "title": "A Hero of Our Time",
  "weight": 6.88,
  "would_recommend": true,
}
>>>
>>> # Load the Zish string, to give us back the Python object
>>> reloaded_book = loads(zish_str)
>>>
>>> # Print the title
>>> print(reloaded_book['title'])
A Hero of Our Time

Contributing

Useful link:

• ANTLR JavaDocs

To run the tests:

• Change to the zish_python_antlr directory: cd zish_python_antlr
• Create a virtual environment: python3 -m venv venv
• Activate the virtual environment: source venv/bin/activate
• Install tox: pip install tox
• Run tox: tox

The core parser is created using ANTLR from the Zish grammar. To create the parser files, go to the zish/antlr directory and download the ANTLR jar and then run the following command:

java -jar antlr-4.11.1-complete.jar -Dlanguage=Python3 Zish.g4

Making A New Release

• Run tox to make sure all tests pass
• Update the Release Notes section.
• Ensure build and twine are installed: pip install wheel twine

Then do:

git tag -a x.y.z -m "version x.y.z"
rm -r dist
python -m build
twine upload --sign dist/*

Release Notes

Version 0.0.13 (2021-04-04)

• Trailing commas in list and maps are now allowed.

Version 0.0.12 (2017-09-07)

• Rename to zish_antlr to distinguish it from zish.

Version 0.0.11 (2017-09-07)

• Upload to PyPI failed for previous release.

Version 0.0.10 (2017-09-07)

• Allow lists and sets as keys to maps.

Version 0.0.9 (2017-08-24)

• Fix bug where int was being parsed as Decimal.
• Make bytes type return a bytes rather than a bytearray.

Version 0.0.8 (2017-08-24)

• Container types aren't allowed as map keys.
• Performance improvements.

Version 0.0.7 (2017-08-22)

• Fix bug with UTC timestamp formatting.

Version 0.0.6 (2017-08-22)

• Fix bug in timestamp formatting.
• Add note about comments.

Version 0.0.5 (2017-08-18)

• Fix bug where dumps fails for a tuple.

Version 0.0.4 (2017-08-15)

• Simplify integer types.

Version 0.0.3 (2017-08-09)

• Fixed bug where interpreter couldn't find the zish.antlr package in eggs.
• Removed a few superfluous escape sequences.

Version 0.0.2 (2017-08-05)

• Now uses RFC3339 for timestamps.

Version 0.0.1 (2017-08-03)

• Fix bug where an EOF could cause an infinite loop.

Version 0.0.0 (2017-08-01)

• First public release. Passes all the tests.