Python module which implements a template based state machine for parsing
semi-formatted text. Originally developed to allow programmatic access to
information returned from the command line interface (CLI) of networking
devices.

The engine takes two inputs - a template file, and text input (such as command
responses from the CLI of a device) and returns a list of records that contains
the data parsed from the text.

A template file is needed for each uniquely structured text input. Some examples
are provided with the code and users are encouraged to develop their own.

By developing a pool of template files, scripts can call TextFSM to parse useful
information from a variety of sources. It is also possible to use different
templates on the same data in order to create different tables (or views).

Note: This package was originally a fork of TextFSM because TextFSM had no
support for Python3 at that time (that's not the case anymore, btw).
Nevertheless this package is somewhat smaller compared to TextFSM and is used
in some projects.

WWW: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/textfsm