B_pp 1.1

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B pp 1.1

The B Preprocessor A code template processor What is this? This is a code templating pre-processor. In my work I often have to write code which runs on multiple data files. The code has to be the same, but the files differ in subtle ways: the number of files, the format of the files, etc. Instead of writing one piece of code, then tweaking it to work for each case, I write a B template, and put all of the file-specific-subtleties into meta-data text files, and the B pre-processor handles all of the case specific tweaking. Why would I want this? Readability Everything is text files and python scripts. The output of the preprocessor looks like normal code that was written from scratch. I send code generated by the pre-processor to my boss all the time. It makes him happy because it looks like code he writes; It makes me happy because I don't have to be inefficient and write code his way. Flexibility The preprocessor uses simple ideas: replacement, iteration, files are treated as strings, the template boilerplate is handled with the same rules as everything else. You can do some crazy things with a little creativity. Why didn't you just learn to use one of the other template scripting languages? Frankly, I wrote the first version of this over the course of two hours. I needed something which worked, and I needed it fast. It would have taken me longer to learn something new, than to make something new. Why B? B comes before C! Most of my work coding is in C/C++. Now I can say things like, "I wrote you A B C... ++ template for that." Actually, no, thats a really limp joke. when install with setuptools (or variant), an executable 'B' is added to the user's path.