hackorama / java-props-in-python

Read a java properties file in python

jprops

Read the key, element pairs from a java properties file

Follows the java properties file format and tested against the Java 8 version of java.util.Properties

Documentation

dict getJavaProperties(file)

• Args:
  • file: a valid file object (as returned by open(filename))
• Returns:
  • The property key and elements as a dict
• Raises:
  • IOError: if file operation fails with I/O related reason
    • Corresponds to java IOException in Properties.load()
  • UnicodeDecodeError: if the property file has malformed \uxxxx encoding,
    • Corresponds to java IllegalArgumentException in Properties.load()
  • AttributeError: if invalid object was provided for file object
    • Corresponds to java NullPointerException

Example

import jprops

props = jprops.getJavaProperties(open("demo.properties"))
print props['greeting']

$ cat demo.properties
greeting = hello world

$ python demo.py
hello world