recursively include text files

rectext.py

import sys, re

# Run like this : 
# python3 rectext.py toplevel.txt
# 
# include statement looks like this
# @include fname.txt


def slurp(fName) :
    with open(fName) as f :
        return (l.strip() for l in f.readlines())
        
def xclude(fName) :
    for l in slurp(fName) :
        if re.match("@include",l) :
            for l2 in xclude(l.split(" ")[1]) : yield l2
        else :
            yield l
            
for l in xclude(sys.argv[1]) : print(l)