blender/doc/manpage/blender.1.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
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'''
This script generates the blender.1 man page, embedding the help text
from the Blender executable itself. Invoke it as follows:
blender.1.py <path-to-blender> <output-filename>
where <path-to-blender> is the path to the Blender executable,
and <output-filename> is where to write the generated man page.
'''
# <pep8 compliant>
import os
import subprocess
import sys
import time
def man_format(data):
data = data.replace("-", "\\-")
data = data.replace("\t", " ")
return data
if len(sys.argv) != 3:
import getopt
raise getopt.GetoptError("Usage: %s <path-to-blender> <output-filename>" % sys.argv[0])
blender_bin = sys.argv[1]
outfilename = sys.argv[2]
cmd = [blender_bin, "--help"]
print(" executing:", " ".join(cmd))
blender_help = subprocess.run(
cmd, env={"ASAN_OPTIONS": "exitcode=0"}, check=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.decode(encoding="utf-8")
blender_version = subprocess.run(
[blender_bin, "--version"], env={"ASAN_OPTIONS": "exitcode=0"}, check=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.decode(encoding="utf-8").strip()
blender_version, blender_date = (blender_version.split("build") + [None, None])[0:2]
blender_version = blender_version.rstrip().partition(" ")[2] # remove 'Blender' prefix.
if blender_date is None:
# Happens when built without WITH_BUILD_INFO e.g.
date_string = time.strftime("%B %d, %Y", time.gmtime(int(os.environ.get('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', time.time()))))
else:
blender_date = blender_date.strip().partition(" ")[2] # remove 'date:' prefix
date_string = time.strftime("%B %d, %Y", time.strptime(blender_date, "%Y-%m-%d"))
outfile = open(outfilename, "w")
fw = outfile.write
fw('.TH "BLENDER" "1" "%s" "Blender %s"\n' % (date_string, blender_version.replace(".", "\\&.")))
fw('''
.SH NAME
blender \- a full-featured 3D application''')
fw('''
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B blender [args ...] [file] [args ...]''')
fw('''
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.B blender
is a full-featured 3D application. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline - modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and video editing.
Use Blender to create 3D images and animations, films and commercials, content for games, architectural and industrial visualizatons, and scientific visualizations.
https://www.blender.org''')
fw('''
.SH OPTIONS''')
fw("\n\n")
lines = [line.rstrip() for line in blender_help.split("\n")]
while lines:
l = lines.pop(0)
if l.startswith("Environment Variables:"):
fw('.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"\n')
elif l.endswith(":"): # one line
fw('.SS "%s"\n\n' % l)
elif l.startswith("-") or l.startswith("/"): # can be multi line
fw('.TP\n')
fw('.B %s\n' % man_format(l))
while lines:
# line with no
if lines[0].strip() and len(lines[0].lstrip()) == len(lines[0]): # no white space
break
if not l: # second blank line
fw('.IP\n')
else:
fw('.br\n')
l = lines.pop(0)
l = l[1:] # remove first whitespace (tab)
fw('%s\n' % man_format(l))
else:
if not l.strip():
fw('.br\n')
else:
fw('%s\n' % man_format(l))
# footer
fw('''
.br
.SH SEE ALSO
.B luxrender(1)
.br
.SH AUTHORS
This manpage was written for a Debian GNU/Linux system by Daniel Mester
<mester@uni-bremen.de> and updated by Cyril Brulebois
<cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr> and Dan Eicher <dan@trollwerks.org>.
''')
outfile.close()
print("written:", outfilename)