#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Genereate man page from jc metadata using jinja2 templates from datetime import date import jc.cli from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader file_loader = FileSystemLoader('man/template') env = Environment(loader=file_loader) template = env.get_template('manpage_template') # get parser info from jc.cli.about_jc() # plug it into the man page jinja2 template output = template.render(today=date.today(), jc=jc.cli.about_jc()) # save to man/jc.1 with open('man/jc.1', 'w') as f: f.write(output)