pyspinner

pyspinner is simple library for parsing text that uses spin-syntax.

Installation

To install pyspinner, simply:

$ pip install pyspinner

or download the source code and do:

$ python setup.py install

How to use it

>>> import spinning
>>> spinning.unique('The {quick|fast} {brown|gray|red} fox jumped over the lazy dog.')      
'The quick gray fox jumped over the lazy dog.'

Running tests

$ python spinning-tests.py
....
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Ran 2 tests in 0.000s

OK

Features

• Supports nested syntax.
• Supports custom opening, closing and separator characters by using the override_params function.

TO-DO

• Allow optional phrases: The quick{ red|} fox...
• Allow special characters {,|,} inside text by escaping them.
• Write more tests