Greetings,

"simpleavro" is a small Python package for reading and writing Avro
files in a simple manner.
It currently provides "read", "write" and "count". More to come.

To install run "easy_install simpleavro". There will be a script
called "simpleavro" that you can run.

Requests/bugs/complaints - https://bitbucket.org/tebeka/simpleavro/src

All the best,
--
Miki

Hi Miki,

If you'd like, I think it would be quite appropriate to include simpleavro
as part of avro proper; it's quite similar to the avro-tools jar included in
the java world.  If you want to pursue this path, the trick is to post a
patch to issues.apache.org.

Cheers,

-- Philip

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Miki Tebeka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> "simpleavro" is a small Python package for reading and writing Avro
> files in a simple manner.
> It currently provides "read", "write" and "count". More to come.
>
> To install run "easy_install simpleavro". There will be a script
> called "simpleavro" that you can run.
>
> Requests/bugs/complaints - https://bitbucket.org/tebeka/simpleavro/src
>
> All the best,
> --
> Miki
>

>> "simpleavro" is a small Python package for reading and writing Avro
>> files in a simple manner.
> If you'd like, I think it would be quite appropriate to include simpleavro
> as part of avro proper
After some thinking, I've changed it to two scripts (in the unix
tradition of "do one thing well" and using pipes).
So now there is avrocat (https://bitbucket.org/tebeka/avrocat/src).

If you still think it something that should be included, I'll gladly
provide a patch.

I think it'd be valuable, yes.

One additional annoyance is that it'd be great if it worked with python 2.4
(since that's what RHEL5/CentOS 5) uses.  You'll find that your code doesn't
(at least, unless you pull in argparse carefully).  Not a big deal,  but an
irritation.

-- Philip

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Miki Tebeka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >> "simpleavro" is a small Python package for reading and writing Avro
> >> files in a simple manner.
> > If you'd like, I think it would be quite appropriate to include
> simpleavro
> > as part of avro proper
> After some thinking, I've changed it to two scripts (in the unix
> tradition of "do one thing well" and using pipes).
> So now there is avrocat (https://bitbucket.org/tebeka/avrocat/src).
>
> If you still think it something that should be included, I'll gladly
> provide a patch.
>

See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-836

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Philip Zeyliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it'd be valuable, yes.
> One additional annoyance is that it'd be great if it worked with python 2.4
> (since that's what RHEL5/CentOS 5) uses.  You'll find that your code doesn't
> (at least, unless you pull in argparse carefully).  Not a big deal,  but an
> irritation.
> -- Philip
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Miki Tebeka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >> "simpleavro" is a small Python package for reading and writing Avro
>> >> files in a simple manner.
>> > If you'd like, I think it would be quite appropriate to include
>> > simpleavro
>> > as part of avro proper
>> After some thinking, I've changed it to two scripts (in the unix
>> tradition of "do one thing well" and using pipes).
>> So now there is avrocat (https://bitbucket.org/tebeka/avrocat/src).
>>
>> If you still think it something that should be included, I'll gladly
>> provide a patch.
>
>