--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/serialdata/sr-info.py	Mon Jan 28 21:50:09 2019 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import zipfile
+import configparser
+
+
+def extract_metadata(fname):
+    cfg = configparser.ConfigParser()
+    with zipfile.ZipFile(fname) as zf:
+        mdata = zf.open('metadata').read()
+    cfg.read_string(mdata.decode())
+    return cfg
+
+
+def print_metadata(mdata):
+    for kv in mdata['global'].items():
+        print('%s: %s' % kv)
+    for device, cfg in mdata.items():
+        if device in ('global', 'DEFAULT'):
+            continue
+        print('%s:' % device)
+        for kv in cfg.items():
+            print('  %s: %s' % kv)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import sys
+    for fn in sys.argv[1:]:
+        print_metadata(extract_metadata(fn))