Added basic template functionality.

[cmless] / bin / misc.py

# (c) 2017 Aaron Taylor <ataylor at subgeniuskitty dot com>
# See LICENSE file for copyright and license details.

# Python imports
import sys, subprocess

# CMless imports
import debug, config

# Accepts a string containing a filesystem path to a text file.
# Returns a string containing the contents of that file.
def load_file(path):
   try:
       with open(path) as f:
           contents = f.read()
   except:
       if debug.print_to_browser: print("Unable to open " + path + " for reading.")
       sys.exit("Unable to open " + path + " for reading.")
   return contents

# Accepts a string containing markup'ed text
# Returns a string containing HTML'ed text
def process_markup(text):
   try:
       p = subprocess.Popen(config.markup_processor,
               stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
   except:
       if debug.print_to_browser: print("Unable to open markup processor: " +
               config.markup_processor)
       sys.exit("Unable to open markup processor: " + config.markup_processor)
   text = p.communicate(text.encode('UTF-8'))[0]
   return(text.decode('UTF-8'))