jinja2-shell-extension 0.0.3

a jinja2 extension to access to system environment variables

What is it ?

This is a jinja2 extension to execute system/shell commands from a template.

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Syntax

The syntax is 'full_command_with_args'|shell([die_on_error_boolean_flag], [encoding]).

Example

from jinja2 import Template, Environment

# We load the extension in a jinja2 Environment
env = Environment(extensions=["jinja2_shell_extension.ShellExtension"])

# For the example, we use a template from a simple string
template = env.from_string("{{ 'date --rfc-2822'|shell() }}")
result = template.render()

# example: result == "Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:35:56 +0100"
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