Explore Orchestration in Python?

[kassyray]

To add with logging, explore migrating main orchestration pipeline from shell to python.

Possible advantages include:

• Improvements to logging
• Creating a python package with full pipeline (orchestration events could be functions?)

Possible disadvantages include:

• Speed?
• Currently using Typst CLI for generation

Generation of templates likely still has to be done in shell but we could call the shell script from python.
Adding this here more-so for conversation!

[eswarchandravidyasagar]

Should we create a lightweight Python module called typstwrap.py that serves as a wrapper around the Typst CLI?

[jangevaare]

Should we create a lightweight Python module called typstwrap.py that serves as a wrapper around the Typst CLI?

This project already has some community support for this purpose plus more advanced functionality - https://github.com/messense/typst-py

If we want to stay light on dependencies, we could just use subprocess for the typst CLI

[kassyray]

@jangevaare I tried this but had a hard time creating the template automatically for more than one client at a time and flex this depending on batch size. The CLI was a little easier for the proof-of-concept; probably about time to revisit the py package

(speaking on the generation shell scripts, not the full shell orchestrator)