Re: [Docutils-users] extract code from code directive from restructuredtext using docutils

[Michael P. <mic...@gm...>]

Thanks for drawing attention to PyLit.  This looks like a great package --
Gunter do you intend to continue maintaining it?

Michael

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@us...> wrote:

> On 2015-02-03, Mark Andrews wrote:
>
> > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding:  --]
>
> > (I asked the following question on stackoverflow two days ago. It has not
> > been given any answers or even comments and very few views, so I was
> hoping
> > that it would ok to ask it again here.)
>
> > I would like to extract out the source code verbatim from code directives
> > in a restructuredtext string.
>
> > What follows is my first attempt at doing this, but I would like to know
> if
> > there is a better (i.e. more robust, or more general, or more direct) way
> > of doing it.
>
> > Let's say I have the following rst text as a string in python:
>
> > s = '''
>
> > My title
> >========
>
> > Use this to square a number.
>
> > .. code:: python
>
> >    def square(x):
> >        return x**2
>
> > and here is some javascript too.
>
> > .. code:: javascript
>
> >     foo = function() {
> >         console.log('foo');
> >     }
>
> > '''
>
> > To get the two code blocks, I could do
>
> > from docutils.core import publish_doctree
>
> > doctree = publish_doctree(s)
> > source_code = [child.astext() for child in doctree.children if 'code'
> > in child.attributes['classes']]
>
> > Now *source_code* is a list with just the verbatim source code from the
> two
> > code blocks. I could also use the *attributes* attribute of *child* to
> find
> > out the code types too, if necessary.
>
> > It does the job, but is there a better way?
>
> Looks plain and clean to me. If you are using Docutils anyway, then this is
> the way to go. If you want to skip the overhead of parsing the complete
> document just to extract code, you could also create a "minimal parser",
> that just looks for ".. code::" (or maybe also literal blocks) and copies
> the following indented block. (This is what PyLit does.)
>
> Günter
>
>
>
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