code templating utility
Project description
Summary
Carp cuts down on typing by letting you store code templates (using jinja2) and then render them.
I named this project carp because this project will save me from CARP-al tunnel. Harharhar.
Isn’t this a bad idea?
Yes. Terrible idea. Good programmers use libraries and inheritance and dynamic code generation and run-time message passing to shrink redundancy.
Shitty programmers use copy-paste. And only the worst programmer imaginable would ever design and use a copy-paste framework.
This project is an abomination.
Hurry back to hacker news to all the other geniuses!
Instructions
The first thing to do is make a directory named “carpdir” at the top of your project:
$ cd ~/src/my-awesome-project $ mkdir carpdir
That’s where carp will store templates.
Pick a file that you want to use as a template and copy it to some out-of-the-way place:
$ cp script.py /tmp/base_script.py
Now edit that copy and replace the text that you want to be passed in as a parameter, by using double-curly braces, like this:
{{project_name}}
Actually, you can use any jinja2 tricks, because the files will be run as jinja2 templates.
Add this template like this:
$ carp-add /tmp/base_script.py
You can get a list of required variables to pass in:
$ carp-info base_script.py
And now you can render that template:
$ carp-render base_script.py --define project_name=bogus
That will write a bunch of stuff to standard output, so use redirect to put it in a file:
$ carp-render base_script.py --define project_name=bogus > bogus_script.py
Future plans
Pretty-up the error messaging when somebody forgets to define a variable.
Add descriptions and other metadata to templates.
Support templates that are more than just a single file. Allow templates to include folders and subfolders and files.
Support command-line tab completion for template names.
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