SCONlite

Semicolon Cut Object Notation

A better way to dictionary

Build Info

Version: 1.0.1 (Limited)
Build: Latest (Jan 21 2022 @ 9:20 AM EST)
Platform: Stable

Release Notes

• Fixed space issue

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Description:

SCON (Pronounced: scone) is a versatile way for formmatting data and is loosely based on JSON, and can be used across multiple platforms.

How to Use:

*Examples can be found in the examples directory of the repo

Supported Types:

• str
• int
• bool
• list
• dict
• NoneType

Comments

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Comment()

Put this as a key in the dictonary and the value will become a comment.

Writing SCON

dump(obj,fp)

Creates and writes a SCON file from a dictionary.

Attribute info:

• obj
  • type: dict
• fp
  • type: builtin_function_or_method

Make sure that fp is writable.

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dumps(obj)

Creates a SCON file from a dictionary.

Attribute info:

• obj
  • type: dict

Returns a SCON string

Reading SCON

load(fp)

Creates a dictonary from a SCON file.

Attribute info:

• fp
  • type: builtin_function_or_method

Make sure that fp is readable.
Return a namedtuple: data contains the parsed SCON file, comments contains the comments from the parsed SCON file.

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loads(obj)

Creates a dictonary from a SCON string.

Attribute info:

• obj
  • type: str

Make sure that fp is readable.
Return a namedtuple: data contains the parsed SCON file, comments contains the comments from the parsed SCON file.

What does a SCON file look like?

string="This is a string";
int=0;
true_bool=true;
false_bool=false;
nothing=null;
list=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];
sub_dictionary0{
	sub_value="I am a sub";
}
#Every line ends with semicolons execept for dictionaries. this comment will continue until you put a semicolon;

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Happy database creation!

Coming Soon

• Micropython port

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