moban brings the high performance template engine (JINJA2) for web into static text generation. It is used in pyexcel project to keep documentation consistent across the documentations of individual libraries.

You can install it via pip:

$ pip install moban

or clone it and install it:

$ git clone http://github.com/moremoban/moban.git
$ cd moban
$ python setup.py install

Here is a simple example:

$ moban -c data.yml -t my.template
$ cat moban.output

Given data.yml as:

hello: world

and my.template as:

{{hello}}

moban.output will contain:

world

the tutorial has more use cases.

usage: moban [-h] [-cd CONFIGURATION_DIR] [-c CONFIGURATION]
             [-td [TEMPLATE_DIR [TEMPLATE_DIR ...]]] [-t TEMPLATE] [-o OUTPUT]
             [-f] [-m MOBANFILE]

Yet another jinja2 cli command for static text generation

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -cd CONFIGURATION_DIR, --configuration_dir CONFIGURATION_DIR
                        the directory for configuration file lookup
  -c CONFIGURATION, --configuration CONFIGURATION
                        the dictionary file
  -td [TEMPLATE_DIR [TEMPLATE_DIR ...]], --template_dir [TEMPLATE_DIR [TEMPLATE_DIR ...]]
                        the directories for template file lookup
  -t TEMPLATE, --template TEMPLATE
                        the template file
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        the output file
  --template_type TEMPLATE_TYPE
                        the template type, default is jinja2
  -f                    force moban to template all files despite of
                        .moban.hashes
  -m MOBANFILE, --mobanfile MOBANFILE
                        custom moban file

• 0 : no changes
• 1 : has changes
• 2 : error occured

It breaks down the given string into a fixed length paragraph. Here is the syntax:

{% for line in your_string | split_length(your_line_with) %}
{{line}}
{% endfor %}

It is used to keep changelog formatted in CHANGELOG.rst.jjs in pypi-mobans project

It expands simple hashtags into github issues. Here is the syntax:

{{ your_github_string | github_expand }}

It makes it easy to mention github reference in change log in all projects. Here is the place it is applied: CHANGELOG.rst.jjs in pypi-mobans project

Here is Grammar in the changelog.yml:

=============== ==============================
Syntax          Meaning
=============== ==============================
`#1`            moban issues 1
`PR#1`          moban pull request 1
`pyexcel#1`     other project issues 1
`pyexcel#PR#1`  other project pulll request 1
=============== ==============================

More details can be found in moban's changelog.yml

Returns a single quoted string in the templated file

Test if a file exists or not