Re: $target contains attributes

Tim Hemel wrote:

> I have encountered a little problem when making a web page publishing recipe.
> 
> I have the following recipe (stripped):
> 
> ------------
> :rule target/%: {buildcheck = $commands $MenuItems} templates/%.tpl
> 	:print $target
> 	:python
> 		from GWS.Templater import *
> 		t = TaptuTemplater(source_list[0])
> 		_no.setAapVars(t)
> 		t.setVar("title","Some title")
> 		print _no.target
> 		_no.outputToFile(t,_no.target)
> 
> Pages = `[ "target/%s.html" % i for i in expand2list(MenuItems)]` target/1.html target/2.html
> Files = target/index.html target/style.css $Pages
> 
> all:	$Files
> 
> :attr { publish = scp://[email protected]//zzz/%file% } $Files
> ---------------
> 
> If I run the recipe, it gives the following output:
> 
> 
> target/index.html{publish=scp://[email protected]//zzz/%file%}
> target/index.html{publish=scp://[email protected]//zzz/%file%}
> Aap: Error in recipe "/some/path/main.aap" line 56: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'target/index.html{publish=scp://[email protected]//zzz/%file%}'
> 
> Clearly, the $target variable contains the attribute in its string. Is there a
> Python function to remove this, or another variable that can be used instead,
> such as $target_path ?

It's not exactly clear where the error message comes from.  Is it in the
Python code?

In Aap commands you can use $-varname to get the variable value without
the attributes.  In Python you can use var2list(_no.varname)[0].

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