Export code and output as pdf file

[JonB]

Note the professor wants both code AND program output.
(output, i can understand... i have no idea why anyone would ever want to see python code in pdf form)

I imagine also that he might expect some kind of header/format?

[cvp]

@JonB Agree, but passing via html helps for other infos like headers..., isn'it.

[mikael]

@cvp, I agree that an all-Pythonista solution would be nicer and provide more opportunities to handle several files with a single click. Anyway, here’s the shortcut.

[cvp]

@mikael Thanks a lot. I didn't even know this feature of posting to an API in Shortcuts app.
I like it.

I always try to process all in Pythonista but I wait the day when @omz would add the functionality to share/open a file to a specific app without passing via a menu, because Shortcuts can do it...

[ccc]

path = editor.get_path()
file_name = os.path.basename(path)
i = file_name.rfind('.')
if i>= 0:
    file_name = file_name[:i] + '.pdf'

# Can be rewritten as...

file_name = os.path.basename(os.path.splitext(editor.get_path())[0]) + '.pdf'

[cvp]

@ccc Thanks. Shame on me, I knew it.... 😢

Edit: also modified in my github

[cvp]

Still to find in the tool the way to get the console output to add it to the pdf...

[mikael]

@cvp, easier to redirect all output to a file?

[cvp]

@mikael Sure but needs to change the code?

[cvp]

This code should return the console content

from objc_util import *

def GetConsoleText():
	print('called')
	win = ObjCClass('UIApplication').sharedApplication().keyWindow()
	main_view = win.rootViewController().view()	
	ret = '' 
	def analyze(v):
		ret = None
		for sv in v.subviews():
			if 'textview' in str(sv._get_objc_classname()).lower():
				if 'OMTextEditorView' not in str(sv.superview()._get_objc_classname()):	# not TextView of script
					return sv.text()
			ret = analyze(sv)
			if ret:
				return ret
	ret = analyze(main_view)
	return ret

Thus full code can be found here

[mikael]

@cvp, no need to change the code:

import contextlib, runpy

with open('ex1_result.txt', 'w') as f:
  with contextlib.redirect_stdout(f):
    runpy.run_module('ex1')

[cvp]

@mikael I didn't know this functionality.
But, that will say that the whole console is redirected, even if your script asks questions...
Anyway, this is a shorter and general solution.

[mikael]

@cvp, agree, case by case either option may be more applicable. I wanted to remind us of both of these capabilities (running a py file and redirecting output), as both might come handy in various contexts.

[cvp]

@mikael "My" solution is not very elegant and I'm not sure it is robust and would stay operational in next versions of Pythonista.
I searched this way for the fun because I I thought that if the console is displayed and is scrollable, it has to be in a TextView...
And during my tests, I discovered the "console 🔽 " button and its pop up menu where you can copy all the console...In the past, I often selected the whole text and copied without knowing this possibility 😢