Mr Zaug wrote: > On Monday, November 30, 2015 at 4:14:48 AM UTC-5, Peter Otten wrote: >> Mr Zaug wrote: >> >> > On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 5:50:51 PM UTC-5, Peter Otten wrote: >> >> Mr Zaug wrote: >> >> >> >> > When I run this script on OS X El Capitan, I see, >> >> > >> >> > # permission sensitive cache >> >> > $include "_dispatcher_shared_auth-checker: >> >> > >> >> > Was I supposed to incorporate it into the script I posted? >> >> >> >> Are you referring to my post? I'm sorry, I can't make sense of your >> >> question. >> > >> > Yes. The snippet you posted went way over my head. When I ran it, it >> > printed >> > >> > # permission sensitive cache >> > $include "_dispatcher_shared_auth-checker: >> >> It's hard to tell from that problem description what might have gone >> wrong. However: >> >> In your template file you have to enclose all words you want to replace >> in braces ("you have foo options" becomes "you have {foo} options"), to >> replace all literal { with {{ and all literal } with }}. >> >> Did you do that? > > Yup, I sure did. So here is my current script. The only remaining task now > is figuring out how to write the contents to a new file. > > #!/usr/bin/env python > import os > import sys > > script, template_file = sys.argv > print "Opening the template file..." > > print "What is the serial number of the site?", > nnn = raw_input()
[...] > with open (template_file, "r") as a_string: > data=a_string.read().replace('{SERVER_NAME}', > server_name).replace('{BRAND}', brand).replace('{CONTENT_PATH}', > content_path).replace('{DAMPATH}', dampath).replace('{ENV}', > env).replace('{CACHE_DOCROOT}', cache_docroot) If all other braces are properly escaped you can use format instead of replace: data = a_string.read().format( SERVER_NAME=server_name, BRAND=brand, CONTENT_PATH=content_path DAMPATH=dampath, ENV=env, CACHE_DOCROOT=cache_doc_root) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list