How to include a file with dynamically generated name?

[chentianran]

Description

Is there a way to include file whose name is dynamically generated? For example, I naively assumed the following would work:

---
title: "Year end report"
format: pdf
engine: jupyter
---

```{python}
filename = "2024-report.qmd"
```

{{< inclulde  `{python} filename` >}}

The end.

But it does not. the include command require static file name. So is there a way to make this work in Quarto?

---

Before you suggest something like this...

#| echo: false
with open(filename, 'r') as file:
    content = file.read()
    print(content)

in a Python code block, I should note that this would not work as the content is rendered as static raw text.

[cscheid]

Include shortcodes are resolved before engines execute the code, so no, that's not a syntax that will work in Quarto.

[mcanouil]

This kind of generated file/code would need to occur in a pre-render script, see https://quarto.org/docs/projects/scripts.html#pre-and-post-render

Just in case, but I believe include shortcodes are the first shortcodes to be resolved so using meta/var shortcodes should not work as well.