On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 3:31:41 AM UTC-7, Hans Mulder wrote: > On 18/12/12 06:30:48, Gnarlodious wrote: > > > This problem is solved, I am so proud of myself for figuring it out! > > > After reading some of these ideas I discovered the plist is really > > > lists underneath any "Children" key: > > > > > > > > > from plistlib import readPlist > > > > > > def explicate(listDicts): > > > for dict in listDicts: > > > if 'FavIcon' in dict: > > > del dict['FavIcon'] > > > if 'Children' in dict: > > > dict['Children']=explicate(dict['Children']) > > > return listDicts >
> It would be more Pythonic to return None, to indicate that you've > changed the list in situ. > > Since None is the default return value, this means you can leave > out the return statement. But then it only operates on the outer layer, inner layers might get processed but not written. Unless I don't understand what you're saying. --Gnarlie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list