Location

class nestedtext.Location(line=None, col=None, key_line=None, key_col=None)

Holds information about the location of a token.

Returned from load() and loads() as the values in a keymap. Objects of this class holds the line and column numbers of the key and value tokens.

as_line(kind='value')

Returns a string containing two lines that identify the token in context. The first line contains the line number and text of the line that contains the token. The second line contains a pointer to the token.

Parameters

kind (str) – Specify either ‘key’ or ‘value’ depending on which token is desired.

as_tuple(kind='value')

Returns the location of either the value or the key token as a tuple that contains the line number and the column number. The line and column numbers are 0 based.

Parameters

kind (str) – Specify either ‘key’ or ‘value’ depending on which token is desired.