Py-jtextfsm

Jul 20, 2023

Smaller fork of py-textfsm, a parser for semi-structured text

Python module which implements a template based state machine for parsing semi-formatted text. Originally developed to allow programmatic access to information returned from the command line interface CLI of networking devices.

The engine takes two inputs - a template file, and text input such as command responses from the CLI of a device and returns a list of records that contains the data parsed from the text.

A template file is needed for each uniquely structured text input. Some examples are provided with the code and users are encouraged to develop their own.

By developing a pool of template files, scripts can call TextFSM to parse useful information from a variety of sources. It is also possible to use different templates on the same data in order to create different tables or views.

Note This package was originally a fork of TextFSM because TextFSM had no support for Python3 at that time that’s not the case anymore, btw. Nevertheless this package is somewhat smaller compared to TextFSM and is used in some projects.



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