EMPY(1)

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💖 EMPY(1) — the empy manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so. welcome to empy, living in section 1 of the General Commands Manual (that's the "run this in your shell" section, iykyk). this page is gonna be your little group chat briefing on it. grab a boba, we're doing this. 🧋✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

empy — a powerful and robust templating system for Python. periodt. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

empy [options] [<filename, or  '-' for stdin>  [<argument>]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So, real talk: this manual page is the brief version of the empy command. It's giving "trailer, not the whole movie". 🎬

EmPy is a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in template text. You hand it an EmPy source file, it does its little process-y thing, and it produces output. Slay. 💅

How? Through expansions — these are special signals to the EmPy system, and they're set off by a special prefix. By default that prefix is the at sign, @. Little @ doing big things fr fr.

EmPy can expand arbitrary Python expressions and statements this way, plus a whole variety of special forms. Anything textual that you didn't explicitly delimit in that @-style way just gets sent, unaffected, straight to the output — which means Python can be used, in effect, as a markup language. Iconic behaviour honestly. 🌈

Also in the mix:

  • callbacks, via hooks 🪝
  • recording and playback, via diversions 📼
  • dynamic, chainable filters 🔗

And the whole system is highly configurable — both via command line options and via embedded commands. Customize away, main character energy. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-`). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files. (yes, the Info files. they're the deluxe edition. 📚)

  • -h, --help — show a summary of options. your "wait what were the flags again" button. 🫶
  • -v, --version — show the version of the program. for when you gotta know which era of empy you're in. ⭐

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

EmPy was written by Erik Max Francis <software@alcyone.com>. absolute legend, no cap. 🫡

This manual page was written by Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). queen behaviour, respectfully. 👑

okay that's the whole page bestie, you're officially empy-pilled 💖 this was EMPY(1) from the General Commands Manual, section 1, and yeah that's literally the name stamped on both ends of the page like a lil bow 🎀 go template something iconic, you got this. ✨🦋🌸

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