r"""plistlib.py -- a tool to generate and parse MacOSX .plist files.
The property list (.plist) file format is a simple XML pickle supporting
basic object types, like dictionaries, lists, numbers and strings.
Usually the top level object is a dictionary.
To write out a plist file, use the dump(value, file)
function. 'value' is the top level object, 'file' is
a (writable) file object.
To parse a plist from a file, use the load(file) function,
with a (readable) file object as the only argument. It
returns the top level object (again, usually a dictionary).
To work with plist data in bytes objects, you can use loads()
and dumps().
Values can be strings, integers, floats, booleans, tuples, lists,
dictionaries (but only with string keys), Data, bytes, bytearray, or
datetime.datetime objects.
Generate Plist example:
import datetime
import plistlib
pl = dict(
aString = "Doodah",
aList = ["A", "B", 12, 32.1, [1, 2, 3]],
aFloat = 0.1,
anInt = 728,
aDict = dict(
anotherString = "<hello & hi there!>",
aThirdString = "M\xe4ssig, Ma\xdf",
aTrueValue = True,
aFalseValue = False,
),
someData = b"<binary gunk>",
someMoreData = b"<lots of binary gunk>" * 10,
aDate = datetime.datetime.now()
)
print(plistlib.dumps(pl).decode())
Parse Plist example:
import plistlib
plist = b'''<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>foo</key>
<string>bar</string>
</dict>
</plist>'''
pl = plistlib.loads(plist)
print(pl["foo"])
"""
__all__ = [
"InvalidFileException", "FMT_XML", "FMT_BINARY", "load", "dump", "loads", "dumps", "UID"
]
import binascii
import codecs
import datetime
import enum
from io import BytesIO
import itertools
import os
import re
import struct
from xml.parsers.expat import ParserCreate
PlistFormat = enum.Enum('PlistFormat', 'FMT_XML FMT_BINARY', module=__name__)
globals().update(PlistFormat.__members__)
class UID:
def __init__(self, data):
if not isinstance(data, int):
raise TypeError("data must be an int")
if data >= 1 << 64:
raise ValueError("UIDs cannot be >= 2**64")
if data < 0:
raise ValueError("UIDs must be positive")
self.data = data
def __index__(self):
return self.data
def __repr__(self):
return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(self.data))
def __reduce__(self):
return self.__class__, (self.data,)
def __eq__(self, other):
if not isinstance(other, UID):
return NotImplemented
return self.data == other.data
def __hash__(self):
return hash(self.data)
#
# XML support
#
# XML 'header'
PLISTHEADER = b"""\
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
"""
# Regex to find any control chars, except for \t \n and \r
_controlCharPat = re.compile(
r"[\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e\x0f"
r"\x10\x11\x12\x13\x14\x15\x16\x17\x18\x19\x1a\x1b\x1c\x1d\x1e\x1f]")
def _encode_base64(s, maxlinelength=76):
# copied from base64.encodebytes(), with added maxlinelength argument
maxbinsize = (maxlinelength//4)*3
pieces = []
for i in range(0, len(s), maxbinsize):
chunk = s[i : i + maxbinsize]
pieces.append(binascii.b2a_base64(chunk))
return b''.join(pieces)
def _decode_base64(s):
if isinstance(s, str):
return binascii.a2b_base64(s.encode("utf-8"))
else:
return binascii.a2b_base64(s)
# Contents should conform to a subset of ISO 8601
# (in particular, YYYY '-' MM '-' DD 'T' HH ':' MM ':' SS 'Z'. Smaller units
# may be omitted with # a loss of precision)
_dateParser = re.compile(r"(?P<year>\d\d\d\d)(?:-(?P<month>\d\d)(?:-(?P<day>\d\d)(?:T(?P<hour>\d\d)(?::(?P<minute>\d\d)(?::(?P<second>\d\d))?)?)?)?)?Z", re.ASCII)
def _date_from_string(s, aware_datetime):
order = ('year', 'month', 'day', 'hour', 'minute', 'second')
gd = _dateParser.match(s).groupdict()
lst = []
for key in order:
val = gd[key]
if val is None:
break
lst.append(int(val))
if aware_datetime:
return datetime.datetime(*lst, tzinfo=datetime.UTC)
return datetime.datetime(*lst)
def _date_to_string(d, aware_datetime):
if aware_datetime:
d = d.astimezone(datetime.UTC)
return '%04d-%02d-%02dT%02d:%02d:%02dZ' % (
d.year, d.month, d.day,
d.hour, d.minute, d.second
)
def _escape(text):
m = _controlCharPat.search(text)
if m is not None:
raise ValueError("strings can't contain control characters; "
"use bytes instead")
text = text.replace("\r\n", "\n") # convert DOS line endings
text = text.replace("\r", "\n") # convert Mac line endings
text = text.replace("&", "&") # escape '&'
text = text.replace("<", "<") # escape '<'
text = text.replace(">", ">") # escape '>'
return text
class _PlistParser:
def __init__(self, dict_type, aware_datetime=False):
self.stack = []
self.current_key = None
self.root = None
self._dict_type = dict_type
self._aware_datetime = aware_datetime
def parse(self, fileobj):
self.parser = ParserCreate()
self.parser.StartElementHandler = self.handle_begin_element
self.parser.EndElementHandler = self.handle_end_element
self.parser.CharacterDataHandler = self.handle_data
self.parser.EntityDeclHandler = self.handle_entity_decl
self.parser.ParseFile(fileobj)
return self.root
def handle_entity_decl(self, entity_name, is_parameter_entity, value, base, system_id, public_id, notation_name):
# Reject plist files with entity declarations to avoid XML vulnerabilities in expat.
# Regular plist files don't contain those declarations, and Apple's plutil tool does not
# accept them either.
raise InvalidFileException("XML entity declarations are not supported in plist files")
def handle_begin_element(self, element, attrs):
self.data = []
handler = getattr(self, "begin_" + element, None)
if handler is not None:
handler(attrs)
def handle_end_element(self, element):
handler = getattr(self, "end_" + element, None)
if handler is not None:
handler()
def handle_data(self, data):
self.data.append(data)
def add_object(self, value):
if self.current_key is not None:
if not isinstance(self.stack[-1], dict):
raise ValueError("unexpected element at line %d" %
self.parser.CurrentLineNumber)
self.stack[-1][self.current_key] = value
self.current_key = None
elif not self.stack:
# this is the root object
self.root = value
else:
if not isinstance(self.stack[-1], list):
raise ValueError("unexpected element at line %d" %
self.parser.CurrentLineNumber)
self.stack[-1].append(value)
def get_data(self):
data = ''.join(self.data)
self.data = []
return data
# element handlers
def begin_dict(self, attrs):
d = self._dict_type()
self.add_object(d)
self.stack.append(d)
def end_dict(self):
if self.current_key:
raise ValueError("missing value for key '%s' at line %d" %
(self.current_key,self.parser.CurrentLineNumber))
self.stack.pop()
def end_key(self):
if self.current_key or not isinstance(self.stack[-1], dict):
raise ValueError("unexpected key at line %d" %
self.parser.CurrentLineNumber)
self.current_key = self.get_data()
def begin_array(self, attrs):
a = []
self.add_object(a)
self.stack.append(a)
def end_array(self):
self.stack.pop()
def end_true(self):
self.add_object(True)
def end_false(self):
self.add_object(False)
def end_integer(self):
raw = self.get_data()
if raw.startswith('0x') or raw.startswith('0X'):
self.add_object(int(raw, 16))
else:
self.add_object(int(raw))
def end_real(self):
self.add_object(float(self.get_data()))
def end_string(self):
self.add_object(self.get_data())
def end_data(self):
self.add_object(_decode_base64(self.get_data()))
def end_date(self):
self.add_object(_date_from_string(self.get_data(),
aware_datetime=self._aware_datetime))
class _DumbXMLWriter:
def __init__(self, file, indent_level=0, indent="\t"):
self.file = file
self.stack = []
self._indent_level = indent_level
self.indent = indent
def begin_element(self, element):
self.stack.append(element)
self.writeln("<%s>" % element)
self._indent_level += 1
def end_element(self, element):
assert self._indent_level > 0
assert self.stack.pop() == element
self._indent_level -= 1
self.writeln("</%s>" % element)
def simple_element(self, element, value=None):
if value is not None:
value = _escape(value)
self.writeln("<%s>%s</%s>" % (element, value, element))
else:
self.writeln("<%s/>" % element)
def writeln(self, line):
if line:
# plist has fixed encoding of utf-8
# XXX: is this test needed?
if isinstance(line, str):
line = line.encode('utf-8')
self.file.write(self._indent_level * self.indent)
self.file.write(line)
self.file.write(b'\n')
class _PlistWriter(_DumbXMLWriter):
def __init__(
self, file, indent_level=0, indent=b"\t", writeHeader=1,
sort_keys=True, skipkeys=False, aware_datetime=False):
if writeHeader:
file.write(PLISTHEADER)
_DumbXMLWriter.__init__(self, file, indent_level, indent)
self._sort_keys = sort_keys
self._skipkeys = skipkeys
self._aware_datetime = aware_datetime
def write(self, value):
self.writeln("<plist version=\"1.0\">")
self.write_value(value)
self.writeln("</plist>")
def write_value(self, value):
if isinstance(value, str):
self.simple_element("string", value)
elif value is True:
self.simple_element("true")
elif value is False:
self.simple_element("false")
elif isinstance(value, int):
if -1 << 63 <= value < 1 << 64:
self.simple_element("integer", "%d" % value)
else:
raise OverflowError(value)
elif isinstance(value, float):
self.simple_element("real", repr(value))
elif isinstance(value, dict):
self.write_dict(value)
elif isinstance(value, (bytes, bytearray)):
self.write_bytes(value)
elif isinstance(value, datetime.datetime):
self.simple_element("date",
_date_to_string(value, self._aware_datetime))
elif isinstance(value, (tuple, list)):
self.write_array(value)
else:
raise TypeError("unsupported type: %s" % type(value))
def write_bytes(self, data):
self.begin_element("data")
self._indent_level -= 1
maxlinelength = max(
16,
76 - len(self.indent.replace(b"\t", b" " * 8) * self._indent_level))
for line in _encode_base64(data, maxlinelength).split(b"\n"):
if line:
self.writeln(line)
self._indent_level += 1
self.end_element("data")
def write_dict(self, d):
if d:
self.begin_element("dict")
if self._sort_keys:
items = sorted(d.items())
else:
items = d.items()
for key, value in items:
if not isinstance(key, str):
if self._skipkeys:
continue
raise TypeError("keys must be strings")
self.simple_element("key", key)
self.write_value(value)
self.end_element("dict")
else:
self.simple_element("dict")
def write_array(self, array):
if array:
self.begin_element("array")
for value in array:
self.write_value(value)
self.end_element("array")
else:
self.simple_element("array")
def _is_fmt_xml(header):
prefixes = (b'<?xml', b'<plist')
for pfx in prefixes:
if header.startswith(pfx):
return True
# Also check for alternative XML encodings, this is slightly
# overkill because the Apple tools (and plistlib) will not
# generate files with these encodings.
for bom, encoding in (
(codecs.BOM_UTF8, "utf-8"),
(codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE, "utf-16-be"),
(codecs.BOM_UTF16_LE, "utf-16-le"),
# expat does not support utf-32
#(codecs.BOM_UTF32_BE, "utf-32-be"),
#(codecs.BOM_UTF32_LE, "utf-32-le"),
):
if not header.startswith(bom):
continue
for start in prefixes:
prefix = bom + start.decode('ascii').encode(encoding)
if header[:len(prefix)] == prefix:
return True
return False
#
# Binary Plist
#
class InvalidFileException (ValueError):
def __init__(self, message="Invalid file"):
ValueError.__init__(self, message)
_BINARY_FORMAT = {1: 'B', 2: 'H', 4: 'L', 8: 'Q'}
_undefined = object()
class _BinaryPlistParser:
"""
Read or write a binary plist file, following the description of the binary
format. Raise InvalidFileException in case of error, otherwise return the
root object.
see also: http://opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-744.18/CFBinaryPList.c
"""
def __init__(self, dict_type, aware_datetime=False):
self._dict_type = dict_type
self._aware_datime = aware_datetime
def parse(self, fp):
try:
# The basic file format:
# HEADER
# object...
# refid->offset...
# TRAILER
self._fp = fp
self._fp.seek(-32, os.SEEK_END)
trailer = self._fp.read(32)
if len(trailer) != 32:
raise InvalidFileException()
(
offset_size, self._ref_size, num_objects, top_object,
offset_table_offset
) = struct.unpack('>6xBBQQQ', trailer)
self._fp.seek(offset_table_offset)
self._object_offsets = self._read_ints(num_objects, offset_size)
self._objects = [_undefined] * num_objects
return self._read_object(top_object)
except (OSError, IndexError, struct.error, OverflowError,
ValueError):
raise InvalidFileException()
def _get_size(self, tokenL):
""" return the size of the next object."""
if tokenL == 0xF:
m = self._fp.read(1)[0] & 0x3
s = 1 << m
f = '>' + _BINARY_FORMAT[s]
return struct.unpack(f, self._fp.read(s))[0]
return tokenL
def _read_ints(self, n, size):
data = self._fp.read(size * n)
if size in _BINARY_FORMAT:
return struct.unpack(f'>{n}{_BINARY_FORMAT[size]}', data)
else:
if not size or len(data) != size * n:
raise InvalidFileException()
return tuple(int.from_bytes(data[i: i + size], 'big')
for i in range(0, size * n, size))
def _read_refs(self, n):
return self._read_ints(n, self._ref_size)
def _read_object(self, ref):
"""
read the object by reference.
May recursively read sub-objects (content of an array/dict/set)
"""
result = self._objects[ref]
if result is not _undefined:
return result
offset = self._object_offsets[ref]
self._fp.seek(offset)
token = self._fp.read(1)[0]
tokenH, tokenL = token & 0xF0, token & 0x0F
if token == 0x00:
result = None
elif token == 0x08:
result = False
elif token == 0x09:
result = True
# The referenced source code also mentions URL (0x0c, 0x0d) and
# UUID (0x0e), but neither can be generated using the Cocoa libraries.
elif token == 0x0f:
result = b''
elif tokenH == 0x10: # int
result = int.from_bytes(self._fp.read(1 << tokenL),
'big', signed=tokenL >= 3)
elif token == 0x22: # real
result = struct.unpack('>f', self._fp.read(4))[0]
elif token == 0x23: # real
result = struct.unpack('>d', self._fp.read(8))[0]
elif token == 0x33: # date
f = struct.unpack('>d', self._fp.read(8))[0]
# timestamp 0 of binary plists corresponds to 1/1/2001
# (year of Mac OS X 10.0), instead of 1/1/1970.
if self._aware_datime:
epoch = datetime.datetime(2001, 1, 1, tzinfo=datetime.UTC)
else:
epoch = datetime.datetime(2001, 1, 1)
result = epoch + datetime.timedelta(seconds=f)
elif tokenH == 0x40: # data
s = self._get_size(tokenL)
result = self._fp.read(s)
if len(result) != s:
raise InvalidFileException()
elif tokenH == 0x50: # ascii string
s = self._get_size(tokenL)
data = self._fp.read(s)
if len(data) != s:
raise InvalidFileException()
result = data.decode('ascii')
elif tokenH == 0x60: # unicode string
s = self._get_size(tokenL) * 2
data = self._fp.read(s)
if len(data) != s:
raise InvalidFileException()
result = data.decode('utf-16be')
elif tokenH == 0x80: # UID
# used by Key-Archiver plist files
result = UID(int.from_bytes(self._fp.read(1 + tokenL), 'big'))
elif tokenH == 0xA0: # array
s = self._get_size(tokenL)
obj_refs = self._read_refs(s)
result = []
self._objects[ref] = result
for x in obj_refs:
result.append(self._read_object(x))
# tokenH == 0xB0 is documented as 'ordset', but is not actually
# implemented in the Apple reference code.
# tokenH == 0xC0 is documented as 'set', but sets cannot be used in
# plists.
elif tokenH == 0xD0: # dict
s = self._get_size(tokenL)
key_refs = self._read_refs(s)
obj_refs = self._read_refs(s)
result = self._dict_type()
self._objects[ref] = result
try:
for k, o in zip(key_refs, obj_refs):
result[self._read_object(k)] = self._read_object(o)
except TypeError:
raise InvalidFileException()
else:
raise InvalidFileException()
self._objects[ref] = result
return result
def _count_to_size(count):
if count < 1 << 8:
return 1
elif count < 1 << 16:
return 2
elif count < 1 << 32:
return 4
else:
return 8
_scalars = (str, int, float, datetime.datetime, bytes)
class _BinaryPlistWriter (object):
def __init__(self, fp, sort_keys, skipkeys, aware_datetime=False):
self._fp = fp
self._sort_keys = sort_keys
self._skipkeys = skipkeys
self._aware_datetime = aware_datetime
def write(self, value):
# Flattened object list:
self._objlist = []
# Mappings from object->objectid
# First dict has (type(object), object) as the key,
# second dict is used when object is not hashable and
# has id(object) as the key.
self._objtable = {}
self._objidtable = {}
# Create list of all objects in the plist
self._flatten(value)
# Size of object references in serialized containers
# depends on the number of objects in the plist.
num_objects = len(self._objlist)
self._object_offsets = [0]*num_objects
self._ref_size = _count_to_size(num_objects)
self._ref_format = _BINARY_FORMAT[self._ref_size]
# Write file header
self._fp.write(b'bplist00')
# Write object list
for obj in self._objlist:
self._write_object(obj)
# Write refnum->object offset table
top_object = self._getrefnum(value)
offset_table_offset = self._fp.tell()
offset_size = _count_to_size(offset_table_offset)
offset_format = '>' + _BINARY_FORMAT[offset_size] * num_objects
self._fp.write(struct.pack(offset_format, *self._object_offsets))
# Write trailer
sort_version = 0
trailer = (
sort_version, offset_size, self._ref_size, num_objects,
top_object, offset_table_offset
)
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>5xBBBQQQ', *trailer))
def _flatten(self, value):
# First check if the object is in the object table, not used for
# containers to ensure that two subcontainers with the same contents
# will be serialized as distinct values.
if isinstance(value, _scalars):
if (type(value), value) in self._objtable:
return
elif id(value) in self._objidtable:
return
# Add to objectreference map
refnum = len(self._objlist)
self._objlist.append(value)
if isinstance(value, _scalars):
self._objtable[(type(value), value)] = refnum
else:
self._objidtable[id(value)] = refnum
# And finally recurse into containers
if isinstance(value, dict):
keys = []
values = []
items = value.items()
if self._sort_keys:
items = sorted(items)
for k, v in items:
if not isinstance(k, str):
if self._skipkeys:
continue
raise TypeError("keys must be strings")
keys.append(k)
values.append(v)
for o in itertools.chain(keys, values):
self._flatten(o)
elif isinstance(value, (list, tuple)):
for o in value:
self._flatten(o)
def _getrefnum(self, value):
if isinstance(value, _scalars):
return self._objtable[(type(value), value)]
else:
return self._objidtable[id(value)]
def _write_size(self, token, size):
if size < 15:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>B', token | size))
elif size < 1 << 8:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BBB', token | 0xF, 0x10, size))
elif size < 1 << 16:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BBH', token | 0xF, 0x11, size))
elif size < 1 << 32:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BBL', token | 0xF, 0x12, size))
else:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BBQ', token | 0xF, 0x13, size))
def _write_object(self, value):
ref = self._getrefnum(value)
self._object_offsets[ref] = self._fp.tell()
if value is None:
self._fp.write(b'\x00')
elif value is False:
self._fp.write(b'\x08')
elif value is True:
self._fp.write(b'\x09')
elif isinstance(value, int):
if value < 0:
try:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>Bq', 0x13, value))
except struct.error:
raise OverflowError(value) from None
elif value < 1 << 8:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BB', 0x10, value))
elif value < 1 << 16:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BH', 0x11, value))
elif value < 1 << 32:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BL', 0x12, value))
elif value < 1 << 63:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BQ', 0x13, value))
elif value < 1 << 64:
self._fp.write(b'\x14' + value.to_bytes(16, 'big', signed=True))
else:
raise OverflowError(value)
elif isinstance(value, float):
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>Bd', 0x23, value))
elif isinstance(value, datetime.datetime):
if self._aware_datetime:
dt = value.astimezone(datetime.UTC)
offset = dt - datetime.datetime(2001, 1, 1, tzinfo=datetime.UTC)
f = offset.total_seconds()
else:
f = (value - datetime.datetime(2001, 1, 1)).total_seconds()
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>Bd', 0x33, f))
elif isinstance(value, (bytes, bytearray)):
self._write_size(0x40, len(value))
self._fp.write(value)
elif isinstance(value, str):
try:
t = value.encode('ascii')
self._write_size(0x50, len(value))
except UnicodeEncodeError:
t = value.encode('utf-16be')
self._write_size(0x60, len(t) // 2)
self._fp.write(t)
elif isinstance(value, UID):
if value.data < 0:
raise ValueError("UIDs must be positive")
elif value.data < 1 << 8:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BB', 0x80, value))
elif value.data < 1 << 16:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BH', 0x81, value))
elif value.data < 1 << 32:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BL', 0x83, value))
elif value.data < 1 << 64:
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>BQ', 0x87, value))
else:
raise OverflowError(value)
elif isinstance(value, (list, tuple)):
refs = [self._getrefnum(o) for o in value]
s = len(refs)
self._write_size(0xA0, s)
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>' + self._ref_format * s, *refs))
elif isinstance(value, dict):
keyRefs, valRefs = [], []
if self._sort_keys:
rootItems = sorted(value.items())
else:
rootItems = value.items()
for k, v in rootItems:
if not isinstance(k, str):
if self._skipkeys:
continue
raise TypeError("keys must be strings")
keyRefs.append(self._getrefnum(k))
valRefs.append(self._getrefnum(v))
s = len(keyRefs)
self._write_size(0xD0, s)
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>' + self._ref_format * s, *keyRefs))
self._fp.write(struct.pack('>' + self._ref_format * s, *valRefs))
else:
raise TypeError(value)
def _is_fmt_binary(header):
return header[:8] == b'bplist00'
#
# Generic bits
#
_FORMATS={
FMT_XML: dict(
detect=_is_fmt_xml,
parser=_PlistParser,
writer=_PlistWriter,
),
FMT_BINARY: dict(
detect=_is_fmt_binary,
parser=_BinaryPlistParser,
writer=_BinaryPlistWriter,
)
}
def load(fp, *, fmt=None, dict_type=dict, aware_datetime=False):
"""Read a .plist file. 'fp' should be a readable and binary file object.
Return the unpacked root object (which usually is a dictionary).
"""
if fmt is None:
header = fp.read(32)
fp.seek(0)
for info in _FORMATS.values():
if info['detect'](header):
P = info['parser']
break
else:
raise InvalidFileException()
else:
P = _FORMATS[fmt]['parser']
p = P(dict_type=dict_type, aware_datetime=aware_datetime)
return p.parse(fp)
def loads(value, *, fmt=None, dict_type=dict, aware_datetime=False):
"""Read a .plist file from a bytes object.
Return the unpacked root object (which usually is a dictionary).
"""
if isinstance(value, str):
if fmt == FMT_BINARY:
raise TypeError("value must be bytes-like object when fmt is "
"FMT_BINARY")
value = value.encode()
fp = BytesIO(value)
return load(fp, fmt=fmt, dict_type=dict_type, aware_datetime=aware_datetime)
def dump(value, fp, *, fmt=FMT_XML, sort_keys=True, skipkeys=False,
aware_datetime=False):
"""Write 'value' to a .plist file. 'fp' should be a writable,
binary file object.
"""
if fmt not in _FORMATS:
raise ValueError("Unsupported format: %r"%(fmt,))
writer = _FORMATS[fmt]["writer"](fp, sort_keys=sort_keys, skipkeys=skipkeys,
aware_datetime=aware_datetime)
writer.write(value)
def dumps(value, *, fmt=FMT_XML, skipkeys=False, sort_keys=True,
aware_datetime=False):
"""Return a bytes object with the contents for a .plist file.
"""
fp = BytesIO()
dump(value, fp, fmt=fmt, skipkeys=skipkeys, sort_keys=sort_keys,
aware_datetime=aware_datetime)
return fp.getvalue()
