List values in a rendered template are joined with a fixed separator of
",\n" (comma plus newline), and there is no way to change that. Templates
sometimes want a different separator, e.g. a plain newline or a single-line
comma-separated list.
Add a --field-separator option that controls how list values are joined
in the rendered output. %n expands to a newline, and the default remains
",\n" for both formats. render_tmpl() applies the separator to the rendered
template, while render_pyright() rejects any other value: the built-in
pyrightconfig.json template is a fixed JSON document, and no alternative
separator is supported for it.
Update the help output test expectation accordingly.
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format_list_dict() substitutes {key} markers with str.replace(), which also
matches the marker inside ${key} and {{key}}, mangling text meant to
survive verbatim, e.g. the ${prefix} variable reference of a pkg-config
file. The built-in pkg-config template works around that with doubled
braces, which produces {/usr}-style output instead.
Replace the markers with a regular expression that skips markers preceded
by '$' or '{', and let the pkg-config template use the ${prefix} and
${exec_prefix} references pkg-config expects.
Extend the unit tests with marker escaping, value escaping, quoting,
indentation, and the rendering of the built-in templates.
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is_list_dict() accepts a string value as a list-dict value, and
render_values_to_list_dict() passes such values through unchanged.
merge_values() then merges them with list extension, and [] += 'xyz'
appends the individual characters, so every string value ends up as a list
of its characters. Normalize string values to single-element lists in
render_values_to_list_dict(), so that merge_values() appends whole values.
jw-pkg projects create-pkg-config is hit by this, because all of its values
are strings: the generated file contains one line per character. The code
path was just never exercised lately.
Add unit tests for the value layout guards, the normalization, and the
merging of the three supported layouts.
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