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-rw-r--r--ipapython/ipautil.py10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ipapython/ipautil.py b/ipapython/ipautil.py
index 240e0d872..47b651c1d 100644
--- a/ipapython/ipautil.py
+++ b/ipapython/ipautil.py
@@ -68,7 +68,15 @@ def realm_to_suffix(realm_name):
return ",".join(terms)
def template_str(txt, vars):
- return string.Template(txt).substitute(vars)
+ val = string.Template(txt).substitute(vars)
+
+ # eval() is a special string one can insert into a template to have the
+ # Python interpreter evaluate the string. This is intended to allow
+ # math to be performed in templates.
+ pattern = re.compile('(eval\s*\(([^()]*)\))')
+ val = pattern.sub(lambda x: str(eval(x.group(2))), val)
+
+ return val
def template_file(infilename, vars):
txt = open(infilename).read()