Question

I am looking for a solution that would allow me to modify Makefile files from inside Python.

I don’t need any special functionality, usually I need only to change variables like: SOMETHING := value but I would prefer to be able to use an existing library than implementing my own, buggy, parser.

Answer 1

Haven’t heard of such Makefile oriented library for Python, but if you only need simple replacements such as SOMETHING := [something_placeholder], then you can just load the template file, replace the placeholder with your value and write it back to disk and give it to make.

Or you could use a templating engine such as Jinja2, but this would be yet another dependency for your application.