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- Updated
- 2020-03-09
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- Description language
- en
Edit card's template with python and a domain specific language
AnkiWeb addon 1159566613
Allows using Python to generate card templates and provides a domain-specific language for template generation.
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Maintenance
active
- Last update or commit was 79 days before the snapshot (2026-07-14).
GitHub
- Repository
- arthur-milchior/anki-template-card-type · more by arthur-milchior
- Stars
- ⭐ 3 · forks 0 · open issues 1
- Last commit
- 2026-07-14
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Languages
- Python
- Tests
- 0
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Version branches
| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.0 | – | 2020-03-09 |
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README
Template in Cards
This is a BETA version. If people want to help debugging and improving. It may change a lot and while I use this add-on a lot, I can't promise it to be fit for everyone (yet?)
Requirement
To use this add-on, you must have installed addon 802285486.
Links
To see a few examples of note type created using this add-on, go read: [examples/README.md] You should probably download this add-on and try those examples to understand how everything works.
Please, refer to documentation to learn how to use this add-on. I'll just give a few examples here.
Rationale
One of anki big limitation, as far as I'm concerned, is that templates can't have code in them. In my case, in a fixed note type, most of the templates are similar. Which means that I have to do a lot of copy-paste. And if I want to edit a part of the template, I have to edit once in each template.
If you know a little bit of Python and of HTML, you can use this add-on to ensure that your template is generated by some arbitrary Python code. The Python expression is given as an attribute of an HTML tag of the template. This ensure that the python code can remain in the template while never being shown in the card's content. This also means that you can recompile a template already compiled - which is pretty useful for debugging.
In order to easily write templates, this add-on also gives you a library/domain specicif language of basic component, called generators. Those generators allow you to change the template, depending on a lot of conditions.
Links, licence and credits
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Copyright | Mostly https://github.com/hssm/anki-addons |
| Maintener | Arthur Milchior arthur@milchior.fr |
| Based on | Anki code by Damien Elmes anki@ichi2.net |
| License | GNU AGPL, version 3 or later; http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html |
| Source in | https://github.com/Arthur-Milchior/anki-template-card-type |
| Addon number | 1159566613 |