Set construction variables for the &b-Textfile; and &b-Substfile; builders.
LINESEPARATOR
SUBSTFILEPREFIX
SUBSTFILESUFFIX
TEXTFILEPREFIX
TEXTFILESUFFIX
SUBST_DICT
The &b-Textfile; builder generates a single text file.
The source strings constitute the lines;
nested lists of sources are flattened.
&cv-LINESEPARATOR; is used to separate the strings.
If present, the &cv-SUBST_DICT; construction variable
is used to modify the strings before they are written;
see the &b-Substfile; description for details.
The prefix and suffix specified by the &cv-TEXTFILEPREFIX;
and &cv-TEXTFILESUFFIX; construction variables
(the null string and .txt by default, respectively)
are automatically added to the target if they are not already present.
Examples:
# builds/writes foo.txt
env.Textfile(target = 'foo.txt', source = ['Goethe', 42, 'Schiller'])
# builds/writes bar.txt
env.Textfile(target = 'bar',
source = ['lalala', 'tanteratei'],
LINESEPARATOR='|*')
# nested lists are flattened automatically
env.Textfile(target = 'blob',
source = ['lalala', ['Goethe', 42 'Schiller'], 'tanteratei'])
# files may be used as input by wraping them in File()
env.Textfile(target = 'concat', # concatenate files with a marker between
source = [File('concat1'), File('concat2')],
LINESEPARATOR = '====================\n')
Results are:
foo.txt
....8<----
Goethe
42
Schiller
....8<---- (no linefeed at the end)
bar.txt:
....8<----
lalala|*tanteratei
....8<---- (no linefeed at the end)
blob.txt
....8<----
lalala
Goethe
42
Schiller
tanteratei
....8<---- (no linefeed at the end)
The &b-Substfile; builder generates a single text file
by concatenating the source files.
Nested lists of sources are flattened.
&cv-LINESEPARATOR; is used to separate the source files;
see the description of &b-Textfile; for details.
If a single source file is present with an .in suffix,
the suffix is stripped and the remainder is used as the default target name.
The prefix and suffix specified by the &cv-SUBSTFILEPREFIX;
and &cv-SUBSTFILESUFFIX; construction variables
(the null string by default in both cases)
are automatically added to the target if they are not already present.
If a construction variable named &cv-SUBST_DICT; is present,
it may be either a Python dictionary or a sequence of (key,value) tuples.
If the former,
the dictionary is converted into a list of tuples in an arbitrary order,
so if one key is a prefix of another key
or if one substitution could be further expanded by another subsitition,
it is unpredictible whether the expansion will occur.
Any occurences in the source of a key
are replaced by the corresponding value,
which may be a Python callable function or a string.
If a value is a function,
it is first called (with no arguments) to produce a string.
The string is subst-expanded
and the result replaces the key.
env = Environment(tools = ['default', 'textfile'])
env['prefix'] = '/usr/bin'
script_dict = {'@prefix@': '/bin', @exec_prefix@: '$prefix'}
env.Substfile('script.in', SUBST_DICT = script_dict)
conf_dict = {'%VERSION%': '1.2.3', '%BASE%': 'MyProg'}
env.Substfile('config.h.in', conf_dict, SUBST_DICT = conf_dict)
# UNPREDICTABLE - one key is a prefix of another
bad_foo = {'$foo': '$foo', '$foobar': '$foobar'}
env.Substfile('foo.in', SUBST_DICT = bad_foo)
# PREDICTABLE - keys are applied longest first
good_foo = [('$foobar', '$foobar'), ('$foo', '$foo')]
env.Substfile('foo.in', SUBST_DICT = good_foo)
# UNPREDICTABLE - one substitution could be futher expanded
bad_bar = {'@bar@': '@soap@', '@soap@': 'lye'}
env.Substfile('bar.in', SUBST_DICT = bad_bar)
# PREDICTABLE - substitutions are expanded in order
good_bar = (('@bar@', '@soap@'), ('@soap@', 'lye'))
env.Substfile('bar.in', SUBST_DICT = good_bar)
# the SUBST_DICT may be in common (and not an override)
substutions = {}
subst = Environment(tools = ['textfile', SUBST_DICT = substitutions)
substitutions['@foo@'] = 'foo'
subst['SUBST_DICT']['@bar@'] = 'bar'
subst.Substfile('pgm1.c', [Value('#include "@foo@.h"'),
Value('#include "@bar@.h"'),
"common.in",
"pgm1.in"
])
subst.Substfile('pgm2.c', [Value('#include "@foo@.h"'),
Value('#include "@bar@.h"'),
"common.in",
"pgm2.in"
])
The separator used by the &b-Substfile; and &b-Textfile; builders.
This value is used between sources when constructing the target.
It defaults to the current system line separator.
The dictionary used by the &b-Substfile; or &b-Textfile; builders
for substitution values.
It can be anything acceptable to the dict() constructor,
so in addition to a dictionary,
lists of tuples are also acceptable.
The prefix used for &b-Substfile; file names,
the null string by default.
The suffix used for &b-Substfile; file names,
the null string by default.
The prefix used for &b-Textfile; file names,
the null string by default.
The suffix used for &b-Textfile; file names;
.txt by default.