Shell parameter expansion in Python. Patched by co-maintainer for a PyPI release.
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POSIX Parameter Expansion
This is an experimental Python library to enable POSIX parameter expansion in a string. It supports also a subset of Bash parameter expansion.
Note that this is a fork from upstream to support proper release on PyPI.
This repo https://github.com/nexB/parameter_expansion_patched is released at https://pypi-hypernode.com/project/parameter-expansion-patched/ on PyPI.
Upstream is less active lately at https://github.com/kojiromike/parameter-expansion/
Why not spawning a shell directly for this?
One reason is that it may be security risk. Another reason is to support lightweight analysis or evaluation of shell parameters with few system dependencies and outside of a running shell.
For instance this use in scancode-toolkit as part of a lightweight shell script parser to extract and expand parameters found in some build scripts.
Which expansions are supported?
All the standard shell expansions are supported, including some level of nested expansion, as long as this is not too complex or ambiguous. In addition, we support Bash substrings and string replacement. There is an extensive test suite listing all supported substitions
How does this work?
The expand()
function accepts a string and a dictionary of variables
(otherwise it uses the current environmnent variables). The string is
parsed with a custom parser and interpreted to perform the various
expansion procedures using these variables.
Obvious Test Cases
>>> from parameter_expansion import expand
>>> foo = 'abc/123-def.ghi'
>>> # Bland Expansion
>>> expand('abc $foo abc')
'abc abc/123-def.ghi abc'
>>> expand('abc${foo}abc')
'abcabc/123-def.ghiabc'
>>>
>>> # Default Value Expansion
>>> expand('-${foo:-bar}-')
'-abc/123-def.ghi-'
>>> expand('-${bar:-bar}-')
'-bar-'
Default Value Expansion
>>> foo = 'abc/123-def.ghi'
>>> expand('abc $foo abc')
'abc abc/123-def.ghi abc'
>>> expand('abc${foo}abc')
'abcabc/123-def.ghiabc'
Any other library doing similar thing?
-
https://github.com/sayanarijit/expandvars has similar features yet does not cover all the expansions that this library supports (such as %, # and nested variables).
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