I've been handed a configuration file from a Metaswitch system, and I need to transform it into an object (preferably with Python) and do some processing on the data. It seems to be some kind of markup language or config file format, similar to YAML. It may be proprietary and specific to Metaswitch, but it feels like something standard. Is this a standard format with a name that I can Google search for? If there is, hopefully there's a parser already built for it that I can just consume. If not, maybe I just have to build one. Here's an example of what it looks like:
//UTF8begin TypeOfContainer NameOfContainer //Named Container KeyName ValueName AnotherKeyName AnotherValueName begin SomeSubContainer SubContainerName //Some "Helper" text. A list of objects of some kind. begin SomeSub SomeSub.1 //Some helper text SomeSubContainerName Arbitrary_Value_Name1 KeyNameWithNest SomeValue NestedKeyName SomeValue NestedKeyName2 SomeValue end //Helper begin SomeSub SomeSub.2 //Some helper text SomeSubContainerName Arbitrary_Value_Name2 KeyNameWithNest SomeValue NestedKeyName SomeValue NestedKeyName2 SomeValue end //Helper end //helper text for SomeSubContainerend //helper text for TypeOfContainerI've tried searching specifically for Metaswitch configuration, and haven't found anything. I've tried searching for "markup language formatted by begin/end and indents", "YAML with begin/end headers", "config format with nested objects formatted by indents" and a few others, and I haven't found anything that matches specifically. I've found a few ideas on how to format it, but nothing specific to this type. I'm sure I can figure something out with pyparsing or similar, but if something already exists, I'd rather use that.