A simple Python package for parsing YAML Frontmatter from a text file or string. Written for Python 3, but should also work for Python 2.7.
from frontmatter import Frontmatter
# assuming 'testfile.md' exists
post = Frontmatter.read_file('testfile.md')
print(post['attributes'], "\n") # Dictionary
print(post['body'], "\n") # String
print(post['frontmatter']) # String
The output would be:
{'foo': 'bar', 'num': 3, 'list': ['first', 'second', 'third']}
This is the actual post content
This is a second line
foo: bar
num: 3
list:
- first
- second
- third
In the above example, the contents of testfile.md is:
---
foo: bar
num: 3
list:
- first
- second
- third
---
This is the actual post content
This is a second line