tests/heredoctest.py

annotate: build format string separately from annotation data

This prepares for porting to generic templater API.

Note that we cannot use '%*s' to pad white spaces because it doesn't take
into account character widths, as described in 4f5a6df2af92.

import sys

globalvars = {}
localvars = {}
lines = sys.stdin.readlines()
while lines:
    l = lines.pop(0)
    if l.startswith('SALT'):
        print l[:-1]
    elif l.startswith('>>> '):
        snippet = l[4:]
        while lines and lines[0].startswith('... '):
            l = lines.pop(0)
            snippet += "\n" + l[4:]
        c = compile(snippet, '<heredoc>', 'single')
        try:
            exec c in globalvars, localvars
        except Exception, inst:
            print repr(inst)