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a powerful macro processing language

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Pyexpander is a powerful macro processing language based on python. Instead of simple macro replacement it offers evaluation of arbitrary python expressions and execution of python code. Pyexpander is Turing Complete.

Homepage:

http://pyexpander.sourceforge.net/ and: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexpander/

Documentation:

Documentation is in the directory “doc”. You can read it by entering “file://<path-to-pyexpander>/doc/index.html” as URL in your browser.

The documenation is also available on the web at: http://pyexpander.sourceforge.net/

The sources are written ReStructuredText format. docutils (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/) is used to generate html documentation from this format. In the source distribution, generated html documentation is already included.

Installation:

Install with pip:

pip install pyexpander

Install from source:

Download pyexpander_[version].tar.gz from this web site

unpack with tar -xvzf pyexpander_[version].tar.gz chdir pyexpander

The program uses the standard python distutils. See also http://docs.python.org/install/index.html for comprehensive documentation on this. If you have root permissions, you may install the program with this command:

python setup.py install

If you want to install the program in a separate directory for testing, you may execute these commands:

mkdir $HOME/test python setup.py install –home=~/test export PYTHONPATH=~/test/lib/python:$PYTHONPATH export PATH=~/test/bin:$PATH

Install with rpm:

download the rpm file from the directory “fedora-NN” on the sourceforge web site

sudo rpm -ivh pyexpander-[version]-1.noarch.rpm

Install the debian package:

download the deb file from the directory “debian-N” on the sourceforge web site

sudo dpkg -i python-pyexpander_[version]-1_all.deb

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