From b940b5a12562c5b4c1d0be89af639b402b2e9c43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ville Rantanen <ville.rantanen@helsinki.fi>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 12:28:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fimplate take input from file

---
 files/fimplate.py | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/files/fimplate.py b/files/fimplate.py
index 9a87d25..79a3054 100755
--- a/files/fimplate.py
+++ b/files/fimplate.py
@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ def setup_options():
     
 === Template example: ===
   Hello [[name]]!
-
+[[letter]]  
 
 == Value file/Value pair example: ==
-[[name]]=John 
+[[name]]=John
+[[letter]]=@letter.txt 
     """,formatter_class=RawTextHelpFormatter)
     parser.add_argument("-e",action="store_true",dest="env",default=False,
                       help="Use the environment to replace ${env} style variables.")
@@ -58,7 +59,12 @@ else:
     in_reader=open(options.template,'rb')
 for l in in_reader:
     for p in pairs:
-        l=l.replace(p[0],p[1])
+        value=p[1]
+        if value[0]=="@":
+            value=open(value[1:],'rt').read()
+        elif value[0:2]=="\\@":
+            value=value[1:]
+        l=l.replace(p[0],value)
     if options.env:
         var_list=[m.group(0) for m in re.finditer('\${[^ ]+}', l)]
         for v in var_list: