> Yesterday I wrote a Python script to generate C code test cases.
I do this quite a bit. Basically, anytime there is something very boiler-platy (like HTTP APIs, configuration management, test cases, etc.) I write metadata in JSON that describes what I'm adding, and then at build time a python script will parse the metadata and generate all of the C or C++ which is then compiled. I even have the python generating comments in the generated C/C++!
I used to use Jinja2 for generating the C/C++ files, but now I just use f-strings in the latest version of vanilla Python3.
I do this quite a bit. Basically, anytime there is something very boiler-platy (like HTTP APIs, configuration management, test cases, etc.) I write metadata in JSON that describes what I'm adding, and then at build time a python script will parse the metadata and generate all of the C or C++ which is then compiled. I even have the python generating comments in the generated C/C++!
I used to use Jinja2 for generating the C/C++ files, but now I just use f-strings in the latest version of vanilla Python3.