jinja2rst
A Simple Tool and Python-Module for Documenting Jinja2 Template-Files
Author: | Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> |
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Copyright: | 2015 by Hartmut Goebel |
Licence: | GNU General Public Licence v3 or later (GPLv3+) |
This tool allows you writing documentation directly into jinja2 template-files as comments. These comments will then be converted to text and the template-code goes into literal blocks.
This is some kind of literate programming, except that you do not write code into your text, but text into your code. This difference allows to use the template-file directly without any pre-processing.
Usage:
jinja2rst [-h] infile outfile positional arguments: infile jinja2-template-file to read (`-` for stdin) outfile rst-file to write (`-` for stdout) optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit
How it works
This script takes all lines beginning with #
(and lines
consisting of only a #
) as text-lines. Everything else will be
treated as "code". The text-lines will get the #
removed
and the "code" will get spaces prepended.
Additionally at the start and at the end of a "code"-block, lines are
added as required by reStructuredText. Also at the begin of a
"code"-block, a ::
is added if required.
Examples
You can find example jinja2-input, rst-output and generated html in the examples directory. You may also view the generated html online at https://rawgit.com/htgoebel/jinja2rst/develop/examples/main.html.