Dump Asterisk Phonebook to json as an interchange format

asteriskPB2Json.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import subprocess
import json
callerid = {}
speeddial = {}
p = subprocess.Popen(["asterisk", "-rx", "database show"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
out =  p.communicate()
out = out[0].splitlines()
for line in out:
        if line.startswith('/cidname'):
                key,value = line.split(':')
                key = key.strip()
                key = key.split('/')[2]
                value = value.strip()
                callerid[key] = value
        if line.startswith('/sysspeeddials'):
                key,value = line.split(':')
                key = key.strip()
                key = key.split('/')[2]
                value = value.strip()
                speeddial[value] = key

output = []
for number,name in callerid.items():
        output.append({"entry" : {"full name" : name, "phone":number, "speeddial" : speeddial.get(number)}})
jsonout = json.dumps(output)

print jsonout