[3.11] gh-101992: update plistlib examples to be runnable (GH-101994) by miss-islington · Pull Request #102000 · python/cpython

Expand Up @@ -159,6 +159,9 @@ Examples
Generating a plist::
import datetime import plistlib
pl = dict( aString = "Doodah", aList = ["A", "B", 12, 32.1, [1, 2, 3]], Expand All @@ -172,13 +175,19 @@ Generating a plist:: ), someData = b"<binary gunk>", someMoreData = b"<lots of binary gunk>" * 10, aDate = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.gmtime())), aDate = datetime.datetime.now() ) with open(fileName, 'wb') as fp: dump(pl, fp) print(plistlib.dumps(pl).decode())
Parsing a plist::
with open(fileName, 'rb') as fp: pl = load(fp) print(pl["aKey"]) import plistlib
plist = b"""<plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>foo</key> <string>bar</string> </dict> </plist>""" pl = plistlib.loads(plist) print(pl["foo"])