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This is my quintessential Python starter template for command-line scripts. This is a elaborate hello world that I use whenever I start a new script. | This is my quintessential Python starter template for command-line scripts. This is a elaborate hello world that I use whenever I start a new script. | ||
| − | What inspired this is that whenever I wrote a shell script I always found myself going back to add readline support; then getopt arg parsing; then exception handling; then help documentation, etc... | + | What inspired this is that whenever I wrote a shell script I always found myself going back to add readline support; then getopt arg parsing; then exception handling; then help documentation, etc... I'd always end up with this hello world script at the core. So what I did was pull this out and make it pretty. |
| − | To make this even more useful I | + | To make this even more useful I have Vim use this as a template for new Python files. I added the following lines to my .vimrc: |
<pre> | <pre> | ||
Revision as of 13:17, 7 December 2007
My starter template for a Python CLI script
This is my quintessential Python starter template for command-line scripts. This is a elaborate hello world that I use whenever I start a new script.
What inspired this is that whenever I wrote a shell script I always found myself going back to add readline support; then getopt arg parsing; then exception handling; then help documentation, etc... I'd always end up with this hello world script at the core. So what I did was pull this out and make it pretty.
To make this even more useful I have Vim use this as a template for new Python files. I added the following lines to my .vimrc:
augroup BufNewFileFromTemplate au! autocmd BufNewFile * silent! 0r $HOME/.vim/templates/%:e.tpl autocmd BufNewFile * normal! G"_dd1G autocmd BufNewFile * silent! match Todo /TODO/ augroup BufNewFileFromTemplate
Then I put this script in a file named:
~/.vim/templates/py.tpl
Now whenever I start a new Python script Vim will automatically copy this template into my buffer.
Click to download: py.tpl <include svncat src="file:///home/svn/src/dotfiles/.vim/templates/py.tpl" highlight="python" />
