run_readme_snippets.py

#!/usr/bin/python

"""Copyright 2013 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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"""


import re

import pinject


readme_contents = open('README.rst').read()
paragraphs = re.split('\n\n', readme_contents)
for index, paragraph in enumerate(paragraphs):
    if paragraph != '.. code-block:: python':
        continue
    snippet = paragraphs[index + 1]
    code_lines = [line[8:] for line in snippet.split('\n')
                  if line.startswith('    >>> ') or line.startswith('    ... ')]
    code = ''.join(line + '\n' for line in code_lines)
    exec(code)