aixstanzaparser

aixstanzaparser Python 3.x module. Subclasses configparser.ConfigParser to support parsing and writing AIX stanza files.

Usage

Here's an example of using AIXStanzaParser to parse lvupdate.data and update it to set llvupdate.llu to yes.

import aixstanzaparser

# Create parser instance
config = aixstanzaparser.AIXStanzaParser()

# Read and parse lvupdate.date
config.read("lvupdate.data")

# Update llvupdate.llu to yes
if 'llvupdate' not in config.sections():
    config['llvupdate'] = {}
config['llvupdate']['llu'] = "yes"

# write updated lvupdate.data
with open("lvupdate.data", "w") as configfile:
    config.write(configfile)

Limitations

Comments are lost when AIXStanzaParser parses a file. So reading, parsing, updating and writing an AIX stanza file with AIXStanzaParser will lose any existing comments.