TOONS

Fast TOON (Token Oriented Object Notation) parsing and serialization for Python.

Quick start

Install

pip install toons

Parse and serialize

import toons

data = toons.loads("""
name: Alice
age: 30
tags[3]: admin,developer,ops
""")
print(data)
# {'name': 'Alice', 'age': 30, 'tags': ['admin', 'developer', 'ops']}

print(toons.dumps({"name": "Bob", "active": True}))
# name: Bob
# active: true

Files

import toons

payload = {"users": [{"id": 1, "name": "A"}, {"id": 2, "name": "B"}]}

with open("users.toon", "w") as f:
    toons.dump(payload, f)

with open("users.toon", "r") as f:
    loaded = toons.load(f)

Official specification

Refer to the official TOON specification for the formal grammar and rules:

Learn next

• Data Types
• Complex Examples