Function loads

Lib/plistlib.py:915–925

Read a .plist file from a bytes object. Return the unpacked root object (which usually is a dictionary).

(value, *, fmt=None, dict_type=dict, aware_datetime=False)

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,