Table of Contents

• Background
• Install
• Usage
• Contributing
• License

Background

TABL is a data serialization language inspired by Lua's table data structure and Python's syntax.

Install

Install via pip:

pip install tabl-lang

tabl-lang requires Python 3.8+, and automatically installs lark-parser, a library for generating parsers, as a dependency.

Usage

Import:

>>> import tabl

Load a table from string:

>>> tabl.loads("name = 'Owen', location: 'Halifax', 'Nova Scotia', 'Canada'")
Table(location=Table('Halifax', 'Nova Scotia', 'Canada'), name='Owen')

Print a table:

>>> tabl.dumps(tabl.Table(location=tabl.Table('Halifax', 'Nova Scotia', 'Canada'), name='Owen'))
"name = 'Owen', location: 'Halifax', 'Nova Scotia', 'Canada'"

The print function can also take in sets, lists, and dicts:

>>> tabl.dumps({'location': ['Halifax', 'Nova Scotia', 'Canada'], 'name': 'Owen'})
"name = 'Owen', location: 'Halifax', 'Nova Scotia', 'Canada'"

The table class has several handy methods that allow its instances to be treated like sets, lists, or dicts, interchangeably.

Contributing

N/A

License

MIT © Owen Maitzen