
Welcome to pyexpander’s documentation!¶
pyexpander - a powerful turing complete macro processor¶
pyexpander is a macro processor that allows to embed python code in text files.
Some of the features are:
- Variables like
$(VAR)
are replaced. - Valid python expressions like
$(2+3/2)
are evaluated. - Arbitrary python code like in
$py(import math; math.pi)
can be executed. - The functionality is available as a script and a python library.
- The program is availiable for python version 2 and version 3.
See Introduction to pyexpander for more information.
Author: | Goetz Pfeiffer (Goetz.Pfeiffer@helmholtz-berlin.de, goetzpf@googlemail.com) |
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Documentation¶
Introduction¶
This gives a first impression on pyexpander’s capabilities:
Full list of documents¶
- Introduction to pyexpander
- pyexpander reference
- EPICS support in pyexpander
- pyexpander for users not familiar with python version 2
- pyexpander for users not familiar with python version 3
- expander.py and expander3.py command line options
- msi2pyexpander.py and msi2pyexpander3.py command line options
- Installing pyexpander
- Installing pyexpander by running setup.py
License and copyright¶
Copyright (c) 2016 by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin.
This software of this project can be used under GPL v.3, see pyexpander license.
Download and install¶
By using pip, installing pyexpander is a single line command. This and other installation methods are described in
pyexpander and sourceforge¶
You find the sourceforge summary page for pyexpander at pyexpander.
Repository access¶
You can either access the software repository by a web interface:
Or, if you plan to extend or improve pyexpander I would recommend that you get a clone of the repository with this command:
hg clone ssh://goetzpf@hg.code.sf.net/p/pyexpander/code pyexpander
You can then commit changes in your own repository copy.
If you plan to share these changes you can create a mercurial bundle and send it to my e-mail address.