Allow specifying a section in a snippet

docs/src/markdown/about/changelog.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 - **NEW**: Tabbed: Add new syntax to allow forcing a specific tab to be select by default.
 - **NEW**: Snippets: Add new option to pass arbitrary HTTP headers.
+- **NEW**: Snippets: Allow specifying sections in a snippet and including just the specified section.
 
 ## 9.6
 

docs/src/markdown/extensions/snippets.md

@@ -120,6 +120,44 @@ include.md::3
 ;--8<--
 ```
 
+### Snippet Sections
+
+!!! new "New 9.7"
+
+Specifying snippet lines may not always be as the source could change moving, adding, and/or removing lines. A way
+around this is to partition a snippet into named sections and then targeting a specific section to be included instead
+of specific line numbers.
+
+Snippet sections can be specified by surrounding a block of text with `--8<-- [start:name]` and `--8<-- [end:name]`.
+Then a file can simply specify the snippet using the name instead of line numbers.
+
+```
+;--8<-- "include.md:name"
+
+;--8<--
+include.md:name
+;--8<--
+```
+
+Unlike other snippet syntax, the section start and end syntax do not have to be on a line by themselves. This allows
+you to embed them in comments depending on the file type. When a section is included, the line with the start and end
+are always omitted.
+
+If we wanted to include a function from a Python source, we could specify the snippet as follows:
+
+```python
+# --8<-- [start:func]
+def my_function(var):
+    pass
+# --8<-- [end:func]
+```
+
+And then just include it in our document:
+
+```
+;--8<-- "example.py:func"
+```
+
 ### Escaping Snippets Notation
 
 !!! new "New 9.6"

pymdownx/snippets.py

@@ -63,7 +63,16 @@ class SnippetPreprocessor(Preprocessor):
         '''
     )
 
-    RE_SNIPPET_FILE = re.compile(r'(.*?)(:[0-9]*)?(:[0-9]*)?$')
+    RE_SNIPPET_SECTION = re.compile(
+        r'''(?xi)
+        ^.*?
+        (?P<inline_marker>-{2,}8<-{2,}[ \t]+)
+        \[[ \t]*(?P<type>start|end)[ \t]*:[ \t]*(?P<name>[a-z][0-9a-z]*)[ \t]*\]
+        .*?$
+        '''
+    )
+
+    RE_SNIPPET_FILE = re.compile(r'(?i)(.*?)(?:(:[0-9]*)?(:[0-9]*)?|(:[a-z][0-9a-z]*)?)$')
 
     def __init__(self, config, md):
         """Initialize."""
@@ -82,6 +91,37 @@ def __init__(self, config, md):
         self.tab_length = md.tab_length
         super(SnippetPreprocessor, self).__init__()
 
+    def extract_section(self, section, lines):
+        """Extract the specified section from the lines."""
+
+        new_lines = []
+        start = False
+        for l in lines:
+
+            # Found a snippet section marker with our specified name
+            m = self.RE_SNIPPET_SECTION.match(l)
+            if m is not None and m.group('name') == section:
+
+                # We found the start
+                if not start and m.group('type') == 'start':
+                    start = True
+                    continue
+
+                # We found the end
+                elif start and m.group('type') == 'end':
+                    start = False
+                    break
+
+                # We found an end, but no start
+                else:
+                    return []
+
+            # We are currently in a section, so append the line
+            if start:
+                new_lines.append(l)
+
+        return new_lines
+
     def get_snippet_path(self, path):
         """Get snippet path."""
 
@@ -135,7 +175,7 @@ def download(self, url):
                 return ['']
 
             # Process lines
-            return [l.decode(self.encoding) for l in response.readlines()]
+            return [l.decode(self.encoding).rstrip('\r\n') for l in response.readlines()]
 
     def parse_snippets(self, lines, file_name=None, is_url=False):
         """Parse snippets snippet."""
@@ -201,6 +241,7 @@ def parse_snippets(self, lines, file_name=None, is_url=False):
                 # Get line numbers (if specified)
                 end = None
                 start = None
+                section = None
                 m = self.RE_SNIPPET_FILE.match(path)
                 path = m.group(1).strip()
                 # Looks like we have an empty file and only lines specified
@@ -215,6 +256,9 @@ def parse_snippets(self, lines, file_name=None, is_url=False):
                 starting = m.group(2)
                 if starting and len(starting) > 1:
                     start = max(1, int(starting[1:]) - 1)
+                section_name = m.group(4)
+                if section_name:
+                    section = section_name[1:]
 
                 # Ignore path links if we are in external, downloaded content
                 is_link = path.lower().startswith(('https://', 'http://'))
@@ -235,17 +279,21 @@ def parse_snippets(self, lines, file_name=None, is_url=False):
                     if not url:
                         # Read file content
                         with codecs.open(snippet, 'r', encoding=self.encoding) as f:
-                            s_lines = [l for l in f]
+                            s_lines = [l.rstrip('\r\n') for l in f]
                             if start is not None or end is not None:
                                 s = slice(start, end)
                                 s_lines = s_lines[s]
+                            elif section:
+                                s_lines = self.extract_section(section, s_lines)
                     else:
                         # Read URL content
                         try:
                             s_lines = self.download(snippet)
                             if start is not None or end is not None:
                                 s = slice(start, end)
                                 s_lines = s_lines[s]
+                            elif section:
+                                s_lines = self.extract_section(section, s_lines)
                         except SnippetMissingError:
                             if self.check_paths:
                                 raise
@@ -255,7 +303,7 @@ def parse_snippets(self, lines, file_name=None, is_url=False):
                     new_lines.extend(
                         [
                             space + l2 for l2 in self.parse_snippets(
-                                [l.rstrip('\r\n') for l in s_lines],
+                                s_lines,
                                 snippet,
                                 is_url=url
                             )

tests/test_extensions/_snippets/section.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/* --8<-- [start: cssSection] */
+div {
+    color: red;
+}
+/* --8<-- [end: cssSection] */
+
+<!-- --8<-- [start: htmlSection] -->
+<div><p>content</p></div>
+<!-- --8<-- [end: htmlSection] -->
+
+/* --8<-- [end: cssSection2] */
+/* --8<-- [start: cssSection2] */
+div {
+    color: red;
+}
+/* --8<-- [end: cssSection2] */
+
+<!-- --8<-- [start: htmlSection2] -->
+<div><p>content</p></div>

tests/test_extensions/test_snippets.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class TestSnippets(util.MdCase):
     """Test snippet cases."""
 
     extension = [
-        'pymdownx.snippets',
+        'pymdownx.snippets', 'pymdownx.superfences'
     ]
 
     extension_configs = {
@@ -223,6 +223,68 @@ def test_start_end_line_block(self):
             True
         )
 
+    def test_section_inline(self):
+        """Test section partial in inline snippet."""
+
+        self.check_markdown(
+            R'''
+            ```
+            --8<-- "section.txt:cssSection"
+            ```
+            ''',
+            '''
+            <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code>div {
+                color: red;
+            }
+            </code></pre></div>
+            ''',
+            True
+        )
+
+    def test_section_block(self):
+        """Test section partial in inline snippet."""
+
+        self.check_markdown(
+            R'''
+            --8<--
+            section.txt:htmlSection
+            --8<--
+            ''',
+            '''
+            <div><p>content</p></div>
+            ''',
+            True
+        )
+
+    def test_section_end_first(self):
+        """Test section when the end is specified first."""
+
+        self.check_markdown(
+            R'''
+            --8<--
+            section.txt:cssSection2
+            --8<--
+            ''',
+            '''
+            ''',
+            True
+        )
+
+    def test_section_no_end(self):
+        """Test section when the end is not specified."""
+
+        self.check_markdown(
+            R'''
+            --8<--
+            section.txt:htmlSection2
+            --8<--
+            ''',
+            '''
+            <div><p>content</p></div>
+            ''',
+            True
+        )
+
 
 class TestSnippetsFile(util.MdCase):
     """Test snippet file case."""
@@ -502,7 +564,7 @@ def test_url_nested_file(self, mock_urlopen):
 
     @patch('urllib.request.urlopen')
     def test_url_lines(self, mock_urlopen):
-        """Test nested file in URL."""
+        """Test specifying specific lines in a URL."""
 
         content = []
         length = 0
@@ -515,7 +577,7 @@ def test_url_lines(self, mock_urlopen):
         cm.status = 200
         cm.code = 200
         cm.readlines.return_value = content
-        cm.headers = {'content-length': '183'}
+        cm.headers = {'content-length': length}
         cm.__enter__.return_value = cm
         mock_urlopen.return_value = cm
 
@@ -615,6 +677,35 @@ def test_content_length_zero(self, mock_urlopen):
             True
         )
 
+    @patch('urllib.request.urlopen')
+    def test_url_sections(self, mock_urlopen):
+        """Test specifying a section in a URL."""
+
+        content = []
+        length = 0
+        with open('tests/test_extensions/_snippets/section.txt', 'rb') as f:
+            for l in f:
+                length += len(l)
+                content.append(l)
+
+        cm = MagicMock()
+        cm.status = 200
+        cm.code = 200
+        cm.readlines.return_value = content
+        cm.headers = {'content-length': length}
+        cm.__enter__.return_value = cm
+        mock_urlopen.return_value = cm
+
+        self.check_markdown(
+            R'''
+            --8<-- "https://test.com/myfile.md:htmlSection"
+            ''',
+            '''
+            <div><p>content</p></div>
+            ''',
+            True
+        )
+
 
 class TestURLSnippetsNoMax(util.MdCase):
     """Test snippet URL cases no max size."""