Package: lesscpy
Python LESS Compiler.A compiler written in Python for the LESS language. For those of us not willing
or able to have node.js installed in our environment. Not all features of LESS
are supported (yet). Some features wil probably never be supported (JavaScript
evaluation). This program uses PLY (Python Lex-Yacc) to tokenize / parse the
input and is considerably slower than the NodeJS compiler. The plan is to
utilize this to build in proper syntax checking and perhaps YUI compressing.This is an early version, so you are likely to find bugs.For more information on LESS:http://lesscss.org/orhttps://github.com/cloudhead/less.jsDevelopment files:https://github.com/lesscpy/lesscpySupported featuresVariablesString interpolationMixins (nested, calls, closures, recursive)Guard expressionsParametered mixins (class / id)@argumentsNestingEscapes ~/e()ExpressionsKeyframe blocksColor functions (lighten, darken, saturate, desaturate, spin, hue, mix,saturation, lightness)Other functions (round, increment, decrement, format ‘%(’, …)Differences from less.jsAll colors are auto-formatted to #nnnnnn. eg, #f7e923Does not preserve CSS commentsNot supportedJavaScript evaluationRequirementsPython 3.7 - 3.11,ply (Python Lex-Yacc) (check requirements.txt)sixInstallationTo install lesscpy from thePython Package Index, simply:$pipinstalllesscpyTo do a local system-wide install:pythonsetup.pyinstallOr simply place the package into your Python path. Or rather use packages
provided by your distribution (openSUSE has them at least).Compiler script Usageusage: lesscpy [-h] [-v] [-I INCLUDE] [-V] [-C] [-x] [-X] [-t] [-s SPACES]
               [-o OUT] [-r] [-f] [-m] [-D] [-g] [-S] [-L] [-N]
               target [output]

LessCss Compiler

positional arguments:
  target                less file or directory
  output                output file path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -I INCLUDE, --include INCLUDE
                        Included less-files (comma separated)
  -V, --verbose         Verbose mode
  -C, --dont_create_dirs
                        Creates directories when outputing files (lessc non-
                        compatible)

Formatting options:
  -x, --minify          Minify output
  -X, --xminify         Minify output, no end of block newlines
  -t, --tabs            Use tabs
  -s SPACES, --spaces SPACES
                        Number of startline spaces (default 2)

Directory options:
  Compiles all *.less files in directory that have a newer timestamp than
  it's css file.

  -o OUT, --out OUT     Output directory
  -r, --recurse         Recursive into subdirectorys
  -f, --force           Force recompile on all files
  -m, --min-ending      Add '.min' into output filename. eg, name.min.css
  -D, --dry-run         Dry run, do not write files

Debugging:
  -g, --debug           Debugging information
  -S, --scopemap        Scopemap
  -L, --lex-only        Run lexer on target
  -N, --no-css          No css output

<< jtm@robot.is @_o >>Python usageIf you want to use the compiler from within Python, you can do it like this:importlesscpyfromsiximportStringIOprint(lesscpy.compile(StringIO(u"a { border-width: 2px * 3; }"),minify=True))The output will be:a{border-width:6px;}LicenseSee the LICENSE file