tmep 2.3.0

Template and Macros Expansion for Path names.

tmep

Template and Macros Expansion for Path names.

Installation

From Github

git clone https://github.com/Josef-Friedrich/tmep.git
cd tmep
python setup.py install

From PyPI

pip install tmep
easy_install tmep

Usage

>>> import tmep
>>> template = '$prename $lastname'
>>> values = {'prename': 'Franz', 'lastname': 'Schubert'}
>>> out = tmep.parse(template, values)
>>> print(out)
Franz Schubert

This module implements a string formatter based on the standard PEP 292 string.Template class extended with function calls. Variables, as with string.Template, are indicated with $ and functions are delimited with %.

This module assumes that everything is Unicode: the template and the substitution values. Bytestrings are not supported. Also, the templates always behave like the safe_substitute method in the standard library: unknown symbols are left intact.

This is sort of like a tiny, horrible degeneration of a real templating engine like Jinja2 or Mustache.

Development

Test

tox

Publish a new version

git tag 1.1.1
git push --tags
python setup.py sdist upload

Package documentation

The package documentation is hosted on readthedocs.

Generate the package documentation:

python setup.py build_sphinx

Functions

alpha
-----

%alpha{text}
    This function first ASCIIfies the given text, then all non alphabet
    characters are replaced with whitespaces.

alphanum
--------

%alphanum{text}
    This function first ASCIIfies the given text, then all non alpanumeric
    characters are replaced with whitespaces.

asciify
-------

%asciify{text}
    Translate non-ASCII characters to their ASCII equivalents. For
    example, “café” becomes “cafe”. Uses the mapping provided by the
    unidecode module.

delchars
--------

%delchars{text,chars}
    Delete every single character of “chars“ in “text”.

deldupchars
-----------

%deldupchars{text,chars}
    Search for duplicate characters and replace with only one occurrance
    of this characters.

first
-----

%first{text} or %first{text,count,skip} or
%first{text,count,skip,sep,join}
    Returns the first item, separated by ; . You can use
    %first{text,count,skip}, where count is the number of items (default
    1) and skip is number to skip (default 0). You can also use
    %first{text,count,skip,sep,join} where sep is the separator, like ; or
    / and join is the text to concatenate the items.

if
--

%if{condition,truetext} or %if{condition,truetext,falsetext}
    If condition is nonempty (or nonzero, if it’s a number), then returns
    the second argument. Otherwise, returns the third argument if
    specified (or nothing if falsetext is left off).

ifdef
-----

%ifdef{field}, %ifdef{field,text} or %ifdef{field,text,falsetext}
    If field exists, then return truetext or field (default). Otherwise,
    returns falsetext. The field should be entered without $.

ifdefempty
----------

%ifdefempty{field,text} or %ifdefempty{field,text,falsetext}
    If field exists and is empty, then return truetext. Otherwise, returns
    falsetext. The field should be entered without $.

ifdefnotempty
-------------

%ifdefnotempty{field,text} or %ifdefnotempty{field,text,falsetext}
    If field is not empty, then return truetext. Otherwise, returns
    falsetext. The field should be entered without $.

initial
-------

%initial{text}
    Get the first character of a text in lowercase. The text is converted
    to ASCII. All non word characters are erased.

left
----

%left{text,n}
    Return the first “n” characters of “text”.

lower
-----

%lower{text}
    Convert “text” to lowercase.

nowhitespace
------------

%nowhitespace{text,replace}
    Replace all whitespace characters with replace. By default: a dash (-)
    %nowhitespace{$track,_}

num
---

%num{number,count}
    Pad decimal number with leading zeros.
    %num{$track,3}

replchars
---------

%replchars{text,chars,replace}
    Replace the characters “chars” in “text” with “replace”.
    %replchars{text,ex,-} > t--t

right
-----

%right{text,n}
    Return the last “n” characters of “text”.

sanitize
--------

%sanitize{text}
    Delete in most file systems not allowed characters.

shorten
-------

%shorten{text} or %shorten{text,max_size}
    Shorten “text” on word boundarys.
    %shorten{$title,32}

time
----

%time{date_time,format,curformat}
    Return the date and time in any format accepted by strftime. For
    example, to get the year some music was added to your library, use
    %time{$added,%Y}.

title
-----

%title{text}
    Convert “text” to Title Case.

upper
-----

%upper{text}
    Convert “text” to UPPERCASE.