new_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
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  import json
  from pprint import pprint
  import sys
  
  '''
  Reads and provides access to a plugin.json file the manifest of plugins.
  '''
  class PluginManifest():
  
    def __init__(self,path=None):
      '''
      Initialize the PluginManifest instance
      '''
      self.path = path
      self.manifest_json = None
      self.manifest = None
        
    def getMetricNames(self):
      '''
      Returns the list of metrics associated with the plugin manifest
      '''
      return self.manifest['metrics']
  
    def load(self):
      '''
      Load the metrics file from the given path
      '''
      f = open(self.path,"r")
      self.manifest_json = f.read()
  
    def parse(self):
      '''
      Parses the manifest JSON into a dictionary
      '''
      self.manifest = json.loads(self.manifest_json)
  
    def get(self):
      '''
      Read the JSON file and parse into a dictionary
      '''
      self.load()
      self.parse()
  
    def getManifest(self):
      '''
      Returns the dictionary from the parse JSON plugin manifest
      '''
      return self.manifest
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        sys.stderr.write("No file")
        sys.exit(1)
        
    p = PluginManifest(sys.argv[1])
    p.get()
    pprint(p.getManifest())
    pprint(p.getMetricNames())
  
subject: Add python class for handling the plugin manifest plugin.json