Compile from a file to a file?

[jgphilpott]

Hey, I'm wondering if DukPy can compile a file rather than a string?

Details

What I mean is that I want to be able to provide the path to a CoffeeScript or TypeScript file and the name of an output file and have DukPy do the compilation for me. Something like this:

import dukpy
dukpy.coffee_compile('file.coffee', 'file.js')

OR

import dukpy
dukpy.typescript_compile('file.ts', 'file.js')

Im currently using another package called libsass-python for compiling Sass and Scss files to CSS and it offers this functionality. Would be great if DukPy could do the same!

I know I could write this functionality myself by getting a Python script to read a file into a string variable, pass that sting variable to the DukPy compile function and then write the output to a file. I just thought I would first check to see if this functionality already exists... don't want to reinvent the wheel!

[amol-]

DukPy provides integration with WebAssets ( https://webassets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) to provide that kind of integration ( a pipeline that given a source file writes an output file ). If you are willing to provide a PR to add support to something like python -m dukpy lang input output or similar I'm open to accept such contributions.

[jgphilpott]

Hey @amol- thanks for replying, I have opened a PR to get your feedback on the changes I have made thus far. Let me know what you think!