Generate config file from template using Python search and replace.

[Mr Zaug]

On Monday, November 30, 2015 at 4:14:48 AM UTC-5, Peter Otten wrote:
> Mr Zaug wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 5:50:51 PM UTC-5, Peter Otten wrote:
> >> Mr Zaug wrote:
> >> 
> >> > When I run this script on OS X El Capitan, I see,
> >> >   
> >> >   # permission sensitive cache
> >> >   $include "_dispatcher_shared_auth-checker:
> >> > 
> >> > Was I supposed to incorporate it into the script I posted?
> >> 
> >> Are you referring to my post? I'm sorry, I can't make sense of your
> >> question.
> > 
> > Yes. The snippet you posted went way over my head. When I ran it, it
> > printed
> > 
> > # permission sensitive cache
> >   $include "_dispatcher_shared_auth-checker:
> 
> It's hard to tell from that problem description what might have gone wrong. 
> However:
> 
> In your template file you have to enclose all words you want to replace in 
> braces ("you have foo options" becomes "you have {foo} options"), to replace 
> all literal { with {{ and all literal } with }}.
> 
> Did you do that?

Yup, I sure did. So here is my current script. The only remaining task now is figuring out how to write the contents to a new file.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys

script, template_file = sys.argv
print "Opening the template file..."

print "What is the serial number of the site?",
nnn = raw_input()

print "What is the brand, or product name?",
brand = raw_input()

print "What is the (fqdn) ServerName?",
server_name = raw_input()

print "What is the content path?",
content_path = raw_input()

print "What is the DAM path?",
dampath = raw_input()

print "Which environment is this for?",
env = raw_input()

print "What is the cache document root?",
cache_docroot = raw_input()

with open (template_file, "r") as a_string:
    data=a_string.read().replace('{SERVER_NAME}', server_name).replace('{BRAND}', brand).replace('{CONTENT_PATH}', content_path).replace('{DAMPATH}', dampath).replace('{ENV}', env).replace('{CACHE_DOCROOT}', cache_docroot)