29 Sep
2016
29 Sep
'16
10:11 a.m.
Hi,
I have a small utility that auto-generates documentation for the commands in a tmbundle by
extracting key-combo and documentation comments from the command files, see:
https://github.com/persquare/CalvinScript.tmbundle/blob/master/Support/lib/…
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:
InvalidPlistException: ExpatError('not well-formed (invalid token): line 18, column
9',)
The (python) code to trigger is simple enough, plistlib or biplist doesn't matter:
try:
import biplist as plistlib
except:
import plistlib
for file in os.listdir(path_to_cmd_dir_in_tmbundle):
path = unicode(os.path.join(cmd_dir, file), 'utf-8')
pl = plistlib.readPlist(path)
Any clues how to handle this?
/Per
29 Sep
29 Sep
11:14 a.m.
On 29 Sep 2016, at 12:11, Per Persson wrote:
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:
[…]
Any clues how to handle this?
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 ``) in
my test.
The biplist is using plistlib for XML property lists, so it may actually
work for binary property lists.
So when encountering this exception, you could try convert the property
list to its binary form (using `plutil`) and see if that works.
You could also look into using PyObjC and import `NSDictionary`, this
should definitely read the file without problems.
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