<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body> <div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"> <p dir="auto">On 29 Sep 2016, at 12:11, Per Persson wrote:</p> <p dir="auto"></p></div> <div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div dir="auto">It works mostly well, but trying to parse a command file that contains a command mapped to the escape key using plistlib/biplist fails with an exception: </div><div dir="auto">[…] </div><div dir="auto">Any clues how to handle this? </div></blockquote></div> <div style="white-space:normal"> <p dir="auto">The issue is that XML does not allow ASCII control characters (and python checks this). XML 1.1 should allow them when entity-encoded, but both python 2.7.12 and 3.5.2 still throw an exception (for <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7"></code>) in my test.</p> <p dir="auto">The biplist is using plistlib for XML property lists, so it may actually work for binary property lists.</p> <p dir="auto">So when encountering this exception, you could try convert the property list to its binary form (using <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">plutil</code>) and see if that works.</p> <p dir="auto">You could also look into using PyObjC and import <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">NSDictionary</code>, this should definitely read the file without problems.</p> </div> </div> </body> </html>