Tool to parse network devices configuration

Would like to share with you guys a tool that I developed - Template Text Parser.

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Background.

Have to work in diverse networking environment with lots of legacy devices and various vendors, as a result came to conclusion that it would be nice to have a tool that can:

1 - Parse configuration and show commands outputs, including nested/indented text data

2 - Produce python native structures - dictionaries/lists, with any level of hierarchy

2 - Use templates that are easy to create, read and share

3 - Capable of processing and transforming data during and after parsing

4 - Able to output results in common formats such as json, yaml, csv, excel tables or render it with Jinja2

The goal was, to implement this workflow - write template, parse data with it and get desired results straight away, without the need to write lengthy scripts to process it further if use case was simple.

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Simple example.

Source data:

interface Vlan778 ip address 2002::fd37:0091/124 ! interface Loopback991 ip address 192.168.0.1/32 ! 

TTP template:

interface  ip address / 

To parse using CLI tool:

ttp --data "/path/to/data.txt" --template "/path/to/template.txt" -o json 

And this will be the result:

[ [ { "interface": "Vlan778", "ip": "2002::fd37:0091", "mask": "124" }, { "interface": "Loopback991", "ip": "192.168.0.1", "mask": "32" } ] ] 

Docs - https://ttp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/