Re: [Docutils-develop] reST Includes

[Aahz <aa...@py...>]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002, David Goodger wrote:
> Aahz wrote:
>>
>> Well, suppose I've got the following Python code::
>> 
>>     print "Hello, world!"
>> 
>> I'm going to want to include both::
>> 
>>     print "Hello, world!"
>> 
>> and::
>> 
>>     Hello, world!
>> 
>> Thus, there needs to be a directive to *run* the Python code and
>> capture stdout (and/or stderr), probably as some kind of literal
>> block.
> 
> I see.  You want a directive that does the equivalent of
> ``os.system()``, and inserts the output into the document.  Hmmm.
> Seems dangerous to me, to embed system calls in a document.  Perhaps
> that should be left outside of the document, in the user's production
> system (a makefile or a script or whatever)?  Or, the directive could
> be disabled by default and only enabled with an explicit command-line
> option or config file setting.  Even then, an interactive prompt may
> be useful, such as:
> 
>     The file.txt document you are processing contains a "system"
>     directive requesting that the ``sudo rm -rf /`` command be
>     executed.  Allow it to execute?  (y/N)

Well, I wasn't expecting this to be a standard directive, I was just
explaining the context for wanting the Python code in a separate file.
If you want to add this as a standard directive, you've probably got the
correct approach.
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