Export

The export function is used to export the GedcomParser object to a file. The export function takes two arguments:

• format (str): The format to export to. Currently only “json” is supported.

• empty_fields (bool): Whether to include empty fields in the export. Defaults to True.

This is a recursive export process. The method GedcomParser.export() calls the GedcomElement.export() method for each element in the GedcomParser object. All attributes starting with __export_ are exported. This is implemented as such to centralise the export process and to make it easy to add new export formats. Only one declaration is needed in the GedcomElement. If you want an attribute to be exported, you need it to start with __export_.

# Make sure you initialized the parser first
parser = GedcomParser("path/to/file.ged")
parser.parse()
export = parser.export("json", empty_fields=False)

# Write the export to a file
with open("path/to/export.json", "w") as f:
    f.write(export)

The export variable in this example contains the exported GedcomParser object as a string. You can write this string to a file or do whatever you want with it.