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add a thing to make a temporary buffer
author Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com>
date Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:14:09 -0700
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1 #!/usr/bin/env python
2
3 # from http://k0s.org/hg/bitsyblog/file/5c04cf601aba/bitsyblog/blogme.py
4
5 import os
6 import subprocess
7 import tempfile
8
9 def tmpbuffer(editor=None):
10 """open an editor and retreive the resulting editted buffer"""
11
12 if not editor:
13 editor = os.environ.get('EDITOR')
14 if not editor:
15 raise Exception("tmpbuffer: editor not supplied and EDITOR not defined")
16 tmpfile = tempfile.mktemp(suffix='.txt')
17 cmdline = editor.split() # XXX shlex would be more powerful
18 cmdline.append(tmpfile)
19 edit = subprocess.call(cmdline)
20 buffer = file(tmpfile).read().strip()
21 os.remove(tmpfile)
22 return buffer
23
24 if __name__ == '__main__':
25 # purely for testing/illustration purposes
26 contents = tmpbuffer()
27 print contents
28