On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:15:54 PM UTC+2, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:31:03 PM UTC+5:30, Laurent Pointal wrote:
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> > raphinou wrote:
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> > > Hi,
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> > > I'm using pyyaml, and need some values in a yaml files to be dynamic,
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> > for
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> > > example somethin like:
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> > > filename: /tmp/backup_{% time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }.tgz
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> > > Is there a simple way to achieve this? (Eg with a templating system
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> > that
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> > > would first handle the template parts from the yaml file)
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> > > Thanks
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> > I used jinja2 templating system to build (render) the yaml string
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> > representation before processing it with yaml.
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> > But for a simple use, maybe a direct keyword replacement is easier (but
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> > gives less control in the template, more in the code).
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> Python's format operator -- '%' or the modern variant --
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> is a mini-templating language:
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> open(templatefile).read() % substitutions
Note that in my example the content to be inserted is not the result of a
variable substitution, but the result of a call to a function. format doesn't
seem to work in this case.
And jinja2 doesn't seem to provide a straight forward solution either
Thx
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