get TOML from inline python script metadata using awk

gistfile1.txt

inline script metadata docs: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/inline-script-metadata/

This awk line is useful because pip and uv can't read the TOML in the .py header directly, but they can read a separate TOML file without issue.



user@host:/tmp$ head -n 13 main.py

# /// script
# authors = [
#     { name = "John Doe", email = "[email protected]" }
# ]
# requires-python = ">=3.10"
# dependencies = [
#     "dotenv>=0.9.9",
#     "repo1 @ git+https://github.com/org/repo1",
#     "icecream>=2.1.5",
#     "jsonpickle>=4.1.1",
#     "repo2@git+https://github.com/org/repo2",
# ]
# ///



user@host:/tmp$ awk '/^# \/\/\/ script/ {in_block=1; next} in_block && /^# \/\/\// {exit} in_block { sub(/^# ?/, ""); print }' main.py

authors = [
    { name = "John Doe", email = "[email protected]" }
]
requires-python = ">=3.10"
dependencies = [
    "dotenv>=0.9.9",
    "repo1 @ git+https://github.com/org/repo1",
    "icecream>=2.1.5",
    "jsonpickle>=4.1.1",
    "repo2@git+https://github.com/org/repo2",
]