Using jinja2-cli To Produce .py Files Produces A Stack Trace. about jinja2-cli HOT 3 CLOSED

Yeah, that's fair, the error is misleading since it's trying to read the second argument as a data source, so it expects like, data.json and would load it as JSON format. In this case, it was like "I don't know what .py is for data.

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Right, you need to use it like:

$ jinja2 config_template.jinja -D carrier=fedex > fedex.py

It doesn't write to a file directly and doesn't accept it as an argument.

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Maybe I closed this too soon but I did realize I read the docs incorrectly.

I think it would be nice to have the stack trace explain the error more but I don't think this is an actual bug. Also, that was a lighting fast response. 0.o

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