Introduction
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*bicop* is a python library to process ISC bind-style configuration files.
These are nested structures that look like this::
datasource1 {
server "server1.your.domain";
username "client";
password "secret";
extra {
isolation "full";
};
};
tables {
"users";
"groups";
};
Parsing
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Parsing is trivial using the ''parse'' method::
from bicop import parse
parse("/etc/bind/named.conf")
This returns a standard python dictionary with all data read from the
file. Entries in the dictionary can be other dictionaries or lists.
Merging
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A common need is to be able to support default values for configurations
or to handle configuration at multiple levels with priorities, for example ...