smartplaylist: Copy-paste-able list of playlists#6404
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Pull request overview
This PR tweaks the smartplaylist plugin’s CLI error output to make the “available playlists” list easier to copy/paste when a user passes an unknown playlist name.
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- Sort the available smart playlist names before printing them in the
splupdateerror. - Print the available playlist names as a space-delimited string instead of Python’s list
repr. - Add an Unreleased changelog entry describing the behavior change.
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| docs/changelog.rst | Documents the updated smartplaylist error output behavior in the Unreleased changelog. |
| beetsplug/smartplaylist.py | Sorts unmatched playlist names and changes error formatting to a space-delimited list. |
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Oh I didn't realize that playlist file names could have spaces since I don't use it like that. Hmm then this needs polishisng. Probably simply wrapping into double quotes should suffice? |
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When supplying an invalid playlist name, the list of all playlists is shell quoted (single quotes) and becomes usable for copy/paste-ing to the user's shell.
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Description
A simple QoL feature for
splupdate- when wanting to update multiple (not all) smartplaylists, it is not very convenient to copy-paste the name from the output the plugin uses.So for example issuing
beet splupdate non_existent_listwe get:['playlist_name_1', 'playlist name 2', ...]. This output can't easily be copy-pasted back to a shell command likeThis change handles quoting for shell using
shlex.quotewhich makes it easy to copy-paste several lists in a row (eg. with common prefixes). Also the list of playlists is now sorted alphabetically prior to printing on the shell!Addition refactorings
A tiny fix below
if not pretend:where.items()for dict-iterating should have been used in the first place.Todo
Documentation.(Not required IMO)