# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # This file is distributed under the same License of Python # Copyright (c) 2014 Oz Nahum Tiram """ build_manpage.py Add a `build_manpage` command to your setup.py. To use this Command class import the class to your setup.py, and add a command to call this class:: from build_manpage import BuildManPage ... ... setup( ... ... cmdclass={ 'build_manpage': BuildManPage, ) You can then use the following setup command to produce a man page:: $ python setup.py build_manpage --output=prog.1 --parser=yourmodule:argparser Alternatively, set the variable AUTO_BUILD to True, and just invoke:: $ python setup.py build If automatically want to build the man page every time you invoke your build, add to your ```setup.cfg``` the following:: [build_manpage] output = .1 parser = """ import datetime from distutils.core import Command from distutils.errors import DistutilsOptionError from distutils.command.build import build import argparse import re as _re AUTO_BUILD = True class BuildManPage(Command): description = 'Generate man page from an ArgumentParser instance.' user_options = [ ('output=', 'O', 'output file'), ('parser=', None, 'module path to an ArgumentParser instance' '(e.g. mymod:func, where func is a method or function which return' 'an arparse.ArgumentParser instance.'), ] def initialize_options(self): self.output = None self.parser = None def finalize_options(self): if self.output is None: raise DistutilsOptionError('\'output\' option is required') if self.parser is None: raise DistutilsOptionError('\'parser\' option is required') mod_name, func_name = self.parser.split(':') fromlist = mod_name.split('.') try: mod = __import__(mod_name, fromlist=fromlist) self._parser = getattr(mod, func_name)(formatter_class=ManPageFormatter) except ImportError as err: raise err self.announce('Writing man page %s' % self.output) self._today = datetime.date.today() def run(self): dist = self.distribution homepage = dist.get_url() appname = self._parser.prog sections = {'authors': ("pwman3 was originally written by Ivan Kelly " ".\n pwman3 is now maintained " "by Oz Nahum ."), 'distribution': ("The latest version of {} may be " "downloaded from {}".format(appname, homepage)) } dist = self.distribution mpf = ManPageFormatter(appname, desc=dist.get_description(), long_desc=dist.get_long_description(), ext_sections=sections) m = mpf.format_man_page(self._parser) with open(self.output, 'w') as f: f.write(m) class ManPageFormatter(argparse.HelpFormatter): """ Formatter class to create man pages. This class relies only on the parser, and not distutils. The following shows a scenario for usage:: from pwman import parser_options from build_manpage import ManPageFormatter # example usage ... dist = distribution mpf = ManPageFormatter(appname, desc=dist.get_description(), long_desc=dist.get_long_description(), ext_sections=sections) # parser is an ArgumentParser instance m = mpf.format_man_page(parsr) with open(self.output, 'w') as f: f.write(m) The last line would print all the options and help infomation wrapped with man page macros where needed. """ def __init__(self, prog, indent_increment=2, max_help_position=24, width=None, section=1, desc=None, long_desc=None, ext_sections=None, authors=None, ): super(ManPageFormatter, self).__init__(prog) self._prog = prog self._section = 1 self._today = datetime.date.today().strftime('%Y\\-%m\\-%d') self._desc = desc self._long_desc = long_desc self._ext_sections = ext_sections def _get_formatter(self, **kwargs): return self.formatter_class(prog=self.prog, **kwargs) def _markup(self, txt): return txt.replace('-', '\\-') def _underline(self, string): return "\\fI\\s-1" + string + "\\s0\\fR" def _bold(self, string): if not string.strip().startswith('\\fB'): string = '\\fB' + string if not string.strip().endswith('\\fR'): string = string + '\\fR' return string def _mk_synopsis(self, parser): self.add_usage(parser.usage, parser._actions, parser._mutually_exclusive_groups, prefix='') usage = self._format_usage(None, parser._actions, parser._mutually_exclusive_groups, '') usage = usage.replace('%s ' % self._prog, '') usage = '.SH SYNOPSIS\n \\fB%s\\fR %s\n' % (self._markup(self._prog), usage) return usage def _mk_title(self, prog): return '.TH {0} {1} {2}\n'.format(prog, self._section, self._today) def _make_name(self, parser): """ this method is in consitent with others ... it relies on distribution """ return '.SH NAME\n%s \\- %s\n' % (parser.prog, parser.description) def _mk_description(self): if self._long_desc: long_desc = self._long_desc.replace('\n', '\n.br\n') return '.SH DESCRIPTION\n%s\n' % self._markup(long_desc) else: return '' def _mk_footer(self, sections): if not hasattr(sections, '__iter__'): return '' footer = [] for section, value in sections.items(): part = ".SH {}\n {}".format(section.upper(), value) footer.append(part) return '\n'.join(footer) def format_man_page(self, parser): page = [] page.append(self._mk_title(self._prog)) page.append(self._mk_synopsis(parser)) page.append(self._mk_description()) page.append(self._mk_options(parser)) page.append(self._mk_footer(self._ext_sections)) return ''.join(page) def _mk_options(self, parser): formatter = parser._get_formatter() # positionals, optionals and user-defined groups for action_group in parser._action_groups: formatter.start_section(None) formatter.add_text(None) formatter.add_arguments(action_group._group_actions) formatter.end_section() # epilog formatter.add_text(parser.epilog) # determine help from format above return '.SH OPTIONS\n' + formatter.format_help() def _format_action_invocation(self, action): if not action.option_strings: metavar, = self._metavar_formatter(action, action.dest)(1) return metavar else: parts = [] # if the Optional doesn't take a value, format is: # -s, --long if action.nargs == 0: parts.extend([self._bold(action_str) for action_str in action.option_strings]) # if the Optional takes a value, format is: # -s ARGS, --long ARGS else: default = self._underline(action.dest.upper()) args_string = self._format_args(action, default) for option_string in action.option_strings: parts.append('%s %s' % (self._bold(option_string), args_string)) return ', '.join(parts) class ManPageCreator(object): """ This class takes a little different approach. Instead of relying on information from ArgumentParser, it relies on information retrieved from distutils. This class makes it easy for package maintainer to create man pages in cases, that there is no ArgumentParser. """ pass def _mk_name(self, distribution): """ """ return '.SH NAME\n%s \\- %s\n' % (distribution.get_name(), distribution.get_description()) if AUTO_BUILD: build.sub_commands.append(('build_manpage', None))