cfn-flip

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "**NOTICE:** For CLI usage, AWS CloudFormation Template Flip is now *deprecated*.\n\nYou should use [rain](https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/rain) instead. `rain fmt` can convert CloudFormation templates between JSON and YAML.\n\nSee [the rain fmt documentation](https://aws-cloudformation.github.io/rain/rain_fmt.html) for details.\n\nThis deprecation notice does not affect the API in this package which may continue to be used.\n\n---\n\n[![Build Status](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cfn-template-flip/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cfn-template-flip/actions/workflows/test.yml)\n[![PyPI version](https://badge.fury.io/py/cfn-flip.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/py/cfn-flip)\n[![Codecov Test Coverage](https://codecov.io/gh/awslabs/aws-cfn-template-flip/branch/master/graphs/badge.svg?style=flat)](https://codecov.io/gh/awslabs/aws-cfn-template-flip)\n\n# AWS CloudFormation Template Flip\n\n## About\n\nAWS CloudFormation Template Flip is a tool that converts [AWS CloudFormation](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/) templates between [JSON](http://json.org/) and [YAML](http://yaml.org) formats, making use of the YAML format\u0027s short function syntax where possible.\n\nThe term \"Flip\" is inspired by the well-known Unix command-line tool [flip](https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~craig/utility/flip/) which converts text files between Unix, Mac, and MS-DOS formats.\n\n## Installation\n\nAWS CloudFormation Template Flip can be installed using [pip](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/):\n\n```bash\npip install cfn-flip\n```\n\n## Usage\n\nAWS CloudFormation Template Flip is both a command line tool and a python library.\n\nNote that the command line tool is spelled `cfn-flip` with a hyphen, while the python package is `cfn_flip` with an underscore.\n\n### Command line tool\n\n```\nUsage: cfn-flip [OPTIONS] [INPUT] [OUTPUT]\n\n  AWS CloudFormation Template Flip is a tool that converts AWS\n  CloudFormation templates between JSON and YAML formats, making use of the\n  YAML format\u0027s short function",
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