combine javascript files at deployment in python

Question

I\'m trying to reduce the number of scripts included in our website and we use buildout to handle deployments. Has anybody successfully implemented a method of combining and com

Answer 1

A slightly different take on the solution proposed by Rushabh. Rather than a file based compress function, this is string based and somewhat simpler:

def jsmerge(file_names, debug=False):
"""combines several js files together, with optional minification"""
js = ""
for file_name in file_names:
    js += open(file_name).read()

# if debug is enabled, we skip the minification
if debug:
    return js
else:
    return jsmin(js)