Calling from python script as function

[raviapatel]

Hi, Thank you for this wonderful tool. Is there any way it can be called from within the python code with string as input and returns formatted string as output?

[nbehrnd]

Right of the tip of hat, I'm not sure how to discern pressing enter to confirm/close an input from pressing the same key to enter a line feed. But in principle, yes, fprettify may be called from Python.

As a minimal example in Linux Debian 12/bookworm (branch testing), let us save the following snippet in file loop.f90:

program test
implicit none

integer :: i
do i = 1, 5:
write (*, *) i
if (i .gt. 3) then
write ("i exceeds 3")
end if
end do

end program test

and the following Python program as loop_formatter.py:

#!/bin/env python3
"""Example to call fprettify from Python."""
import argparse
import subprocess

def get_arguments():
    """Learn which file to process."""
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Call fprettify by Python.")

    parser.add_argument("-f",
                        "--file",
                        metavar="file",
                        help="File to send to fprettify.")

    args = parser.parse_args()
    data = args.file
    return data

def main():
    """Perform the work."""
    file = get_arguments()

    # output to the CLI by flag -s (default: false)
    command = str(f"fprettify {file} -s")
    subprocess.call(command, shell=True)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

After provision of the executable bit (chmod u+x loop_formatter.py), the call

./loop_formater.py -f loop.f90

offers the same output (to the CLI) as

fprettify -s loop.f90

[raviapatel]

Yes the i am already aware of using subprocess I was more looking in terms of intergrating it with a code generator. So what I would like is to input string as get string as output something like.... def (instr, fprettifyOptions): .... return fromattedStr