Make Shpaml usable outside of Django

[cool-RR]

I'm making a simple static site now, and it would be great if I could write it in Shpaml and have a script to build the HTML. I don't want anything that requires a complex setup since this is a simple site. It would be nice if we had a solution for this. I saw there's a package shpaml on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/shpaml But it seems to not have been updated for years, and there isn't a clear entry point to using it. In fact its "docs" don't mention at all how to use it.

[jiaaro]

Should work:

from shpaml.shpaml import convert_text

convert_text("# a headline")

Excuse the brevity, Im replying from an iPad

[cool-RR]

I tried that, but it's a problem because importing shpaml also tries to import django, which doesn't work when the environment variables aren't installed. (Like when you're not in a virtualenv of a Django project.)

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:22 AM, James Robert notifications@github.com wrote:

from shpaml.shpaml import convert_text

convert_text("# a headline")

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[jiaaro]

ah got it, does it work for you from master now? should be:

from shpaml import convert_text

[cool-RR]

Yep! Works and shows your warning.

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ah got it, does it work for you from master now? should be:

from shpaml import convert_text

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[cool-RR]

Hmm, actually it works only if Django isn't installed, if Django is installed it fails because of the missing environment variables.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Ram Rachum ram@rachum.com wrote:

Yep! Works and shows your warning.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:56 PM, James Robert notifications@github.com wrote:

ah got it, does it work for you from master now? should be:

from shpaml import convert_text

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[cool-RR]

In case it might be useful for anyone, here's a watchdog script I made for Shpaml:

https://gist.github.com/cool-RR/a3e9b74a7b0ef9cedcf7

It's on a strictly "works for me" basis, i.e. not tested across different scenarios, Python versions or operating systems. (Which is why it's shared in a gist rather than a repo.)

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Ram Rachum ram@rachum.com wrote:

Hmm, actually it works only if Django isn't installed, if Django is installed it fails because of the missing environment variables.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Ram Rachum ram@rachum.com wrote:

Yep! Works and shows your warning.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:56 PM, James Robert notifications@github.com wrote:

ah got it, does it work for you from master now? should be:

from shpaml import convert_text

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[jiaaro]

I’m hesistant to suppress that error because if you are using django and that message bubbled up through shpaml, you probably want to know about it. obviously it would have been a better idea to just import everything via submodules instead of pulling it in to the init.py - but it’s too late to undo that :/

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Ram Rachum notifications@github.com wrote:

Hmm, actually it works only if Django isn't installed, if Django is installed it fails because of the missing environment variables. On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Ram Rachum ram@rachum.com wrote:

Yep! Works and shows your warning.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:56 PM, James Robert notifications@github.com wrote:

ah got it, does it work for you from master now? should be:

from shpaml import convert_text

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[cool-RR]

Makes sense. I think it's a good compromise.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:35 PM, James Robert notifications@github.com wrote:

I’m hesistant to suppress that error because if you are using django and that message bubbled up through shpaml, you probably want to know about it. obviously it would have been a better idea to just import everything via submodules instead of pulling it in to the init.py - but it’s too late to undo that :/

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Ram Rachum notifications@github.com wrote:

Hmm, actually it works only if Django isn't installed, if Django is installed it fails because of the missing environment variables. On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Ram Rachum ram@rachum.com wrote:

Yep! Works and shows your warning.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:56 PM, James Robert notifications@github.com

wrote:

ah got it, does it work for you from master now? should be:

from shpaml import convert_text

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[cool-RR]

Hi James,

Have you made a release with this feature?

[jiaaro]

v1.3.0 (as of today)

[cool-RR]

Thanks!

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:18 PM, James Robert notifications@github.com wrote:

Closed #14 https://github.com/Rootbuzz/shpaml/issues/14.

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