What is ARD? See here.
The latest stable release of this library is available on PyPi:
python -m pip install ard
This library has three main features:
- Allows you to easily transmit ARD in several formats: YAML, JSON, XML, and
CBOR. Supports both encoding and decoding. Included is an
ardconvCLI tool that can convert between all formats. - Enable support for decoding YAML with complex keys. As it stands, the otherwise excellent ruamel.yaml library will choke on complex keys.
- Support for ARD-compatible extensions to JSON (CJSON). This allows for round-tripping ARD through JSON without losing type information, including support for integers, byte arrays, and maps with non-string keys.
Python's dict does not support un-hashable keys, making it difficult to work
with complex keys. For this reason we provide the ard.Map class, which does
support un-hashable keys and is otherwise a drop-in replacement for dict. It
will be used automatically when decoding, if necessary.
Documentation is a work in progress! For now check out test.py
for example use.