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Read the key, element pairs from a java properties file

Follows thejava properties file format and tested against the Java 8 version ofjava.util.Properties

dict getJavaProperties(file)

• Args:
  • file: a valid file object (as returned byopen(filename))
• Returns:
  • The property key and elements as a dict
• Raises:
  • IOError: if file operation fails with I/O related reason
    • Corresponds to javaIOException inProperties.load()
  • UnicodeDecodeError: if the property file has malformed\uxxxx encoding,
    • Corresponds to javaIllegalArgumentException inProperties.load()
  • AttributeError: if invalid object was provided for file object
    • Corresponds to javaNullPointerException

import jpropsprops = jprops.getJavaProperties(open("demo.properties"))print props['greeting']

$ cat demo.propertiesgreeting = hello world

$ python demo.pyhello world