dynamic values in yaml
Rustom Mody
rustompmody at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 13:15:54 EDT 2014
On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:31:03 PM UTC+5:30, Laurent Pointal wrote:
> raphinou wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm using pyyaml, and need some values in a yaml files to be dynamic,
> for
> > example somethin like:
> > filename: /tmp/backup_{% time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }.tgz
> > Is there a simple way to achieve this? (Eg with a templating system
> that
> > would first handle the template parts from the yaml file)
> > Thanks
> I used jinja2 templating system to build (render) the yaml string
> representation before processing it with yaml.
> But for a simple use, maybe a direct keyword replacement is easier (but
> gives less control in the template, more in the code).
Python's format operator -- '%' or the modern variant --
is a mini-templating language:
open(templatefile).read() % substitutions
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