I have a program that require all keywords to be in a single paragraph, most of the time, separated by commas

For example:

I have those terms

1-Term
1.1-Term
2-Term
3-Term
4-Term

That i collected and organized into groups and subgroups with Titles and subtitles

Title

  • 1-Term

  • 1.1-Term

  • 2-Term

    • Sub-Title
      • 3-Term
      • 4-Term

But then i want to turn them into:

1-Term, 1.1-Term, 2-Term, 3-Term, 4-Term

Removing certain marked words(Titles and sub-Titles), any Empty/Blank space, and Line breaks, while adding the commas between The Terms. I want to keep certain dashes “-”(like in words )

1-Term,1.1 -Term,2-Term,3-Term,4-Term

  • bus_factor@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 hours ago

    If you can’t install a dedicated tool like yq but don’t mind creating a standalone script, python would be able to do this out of the box on pretty much any computer, calculator or toaster you can get your hands on in 2026:

    #! /usr/bin/env python3

import yaml
import sys

def parse_yaml(filename):
    with open(filename) as fd:
        return yaml.safe_load(fd)

def get_leaf_nodes(data_iterable):
    output = []
    for v in data_iterable:
        if isinstance(v, dict):
            output += get_leaf_nodes(v.values())
        elif isinstance(v, list):
            output += get_leaf_nodes(v)
        else:
            output.append(v)
    return output

print(",".join(get_leaf_nodes(parse_yaml(sys.argv[1]))))

    $ /tmp/foo.py /tmp/foo.txt
Harry potter,Perfect Blue,Jurassic world,Jurassic Park,Jedi,Star wars,The clone wars,MCU,Gumball,Flapjack,Steven Universe,Stars vs. the forces of Evil,Wordgril,Flapjack

    This takes the first argument on the command line, parses it as yaml, finds all leaf nodes recursively, and prints a comma-separated list of the results.