New submission from Clay Caviness <c...@boobah.com>:
Some Info.plist files are poorly formatted. I am using plistlib to read Info.plist file from various .app bundles. On some, plistlib.load raises a ValueError when trying to parse. Examining one of these Info.plist files, it turns out *it* is poorly formatted, but while python's plistlib is unhappy, it passes "plutil -lint" just fine and "Foundation.NSDictionary.dictionaryWithContentsOfFile_" is happy to read it. Here's a minimal sample plist file: """ <?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";> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>An array</key> <array> <string>a string</string> <key>A wild key appears!</key> <string>it has a string</string> <string>another string</string> </array> </dict> </plist> """ plistlib (correctly, I think) says that's no good. Apple's tooling just ... changes the key to another string in the array and carries on. I've attached an actual problematic Info.plist as well. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: Info.plist messages: 367217 nosy: Clay Caviness priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: plistlib doesn't handle poorly-formatted plists versions: Python 3.7 Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file49091/Info.plist _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40381> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
