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fix a syntax error in the python template thanks to some friendly tests
author Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com>
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1 Make It So!
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2 ===========
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4 templates for the people
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6 So people generally do things the easiest way possible. If you try to
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7 get people to send you a file with, say, a "one-off" script, they will
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8 probably hard code a bunch of stuff in it. Then, you're not really
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9 sure what needs to be changed and because you're human you might make
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10 a mistake. Worse, its a perl script and you're a python programmer.
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11 You don't know what that script does!
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13 And this is the time of the iceberg. If it really is a one-off, who
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14 cares? But quickly one-offs become a deployment story, and not a very
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15 efficient one.
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18 Making a New Template
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19 ---------------------
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22 Variable Conventions
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23 --------------------
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25 MakeItSo! provides a few variables for you. You can include another
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26 file or URL using {{include(URI)}}, where URI is the file path or the
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27 URL (of course, internet is required to include remote resources). The
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28 included resource is not included.
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30 Files and URLS being interpolated also have the variable %(here)s,
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31 which is the parent of their resource. Therefor, using sensible path
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32 conventions, a neighboring file may be (e.g.) included like
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34 {{include(here + 'foo.txt')}}
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36 The python template asserts several conventions:
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38 - project: the project chosen
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39 - author: author of a project
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40 - email: author's email
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41 - url: url of the project
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42 - repo: the repository of the project; this will be used for the URL
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43 if it is given and the URL is not
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46 Adding a License to a Template
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49 [TODO]
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52 Web Service
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53 -----------
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55 python has the ability to run files from stdin. This means you can
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56 run makeitso directly from the web::
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58 python <(curl http://k0s.org/mozilla/hg/MakeItSo/raw-file/tip/makeitso/makeitso.py) [URI]
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60 This uses the bash shell. If you have another shell you may have to
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61 use another syntax, download the file, or install the package.