Parser for Proxmox .conf files

proxmox-config-parser.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import configparser
import json
from pprint import pp

def parse_proxmox_config(file_path):
  parser = configparser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True, delimiters=':')

  with open(file_path, 'r') as file:
      content = file.read()

  # Prepend a dummy section header
  modified_content = '[DEFAULT]\n' + content

  parser.read_string(modified_content)

  config = {}

  for section in parser:
    if section != 'DEFAULT':
      config['snapshots'] = {section:{}}

    for key,value in parser[section].items():

      conf = config if section == 'DEFAULT' else config['snapshots'][section]
      value, lst, dct = value.strip(), [], {}

      # Check if the value contains list items and/or key-value pairs
      for val in value.split(','):
        if '=' in val:
          dct |= dict([val.split('=')])
        else:
          lst.append(val)

      if len(dct)>0:
        lst.append(dct)

      conf[key] = lst if len(lst)>1 else dct or value

  return config

### Example usage ###
config_file_path = '/etc/pve/nodes/pve/qemu-server/9998.conf'
config = parse_proxmox_config(config_file_path)
#pp(config)
print(json.dumps(config,indent=True))