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### Tutorial Documentation
Documentation that goes along with the Airflow tutorial located
[here](https://airflow.apache.org/tutorial.html)
"""

from __future__ import annotations

# [START tutorial]
# [START import_module]
import textwrap
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

# Operators; we need this to operate!
from airflow.providers.standard.operators.bash import BashOperator

# The DAG object; we'll need this to instantiate a DAG
from airflow.sdk import DAG

# [END import_module]


# [START instantiate_dag]
with DAG(
    "tutorial",
    # [START default_args]
    # These args will get passed on to each operator
    # You can override them on a per-task basis during operator initialization
    default_args={
        "depends_on_past": False,
        "retries": 1,
        "retry_delay": timedelta(minutes=5),
        # 'queue': 'bash_queue',
        # 'pool': 'backfill',
        # 'priority_weight': 10,
        # 'end_date': datetime(2016, 1, 1),
        # 'wait_for_downstream': False,
        # 'execution_timeout': timedelta(seconds=300),
        # 'on_failure_callback': some_function, # or list of functions
        # 'on_success_callback': some_other_function, # or list of functions
        # 'on_retry_callback': another_function, # or list of functions
        # 'sla_miss_callback': yet_another_function, # or list of functions
        # 'on_skipped_callback': another_function, #or list of functions
        # 'trigger_rule': 'all_success'
    },
    # [END default_args]
    description="A simple tutorial DAG",
    schedule=timedelta(days=1),
    start_date=datetime(2021, 1, 1),
    catchup=False,
    tags=["example"],
) as dag:
    # [END instantiate_dag]

    # t1, t2 and t3 are examples of tasks created by instantiating operators
    # [START basic_task]
[docs] t1 = BashOperator( task_id="print_date", bash_command="date", )
t2 = BashOperator( task_id="sleep", depends_on_past=False, bash_command="sleep 5", retries=3, ) # [END basic_task] # [START documentation] t1.doc_md = textwrap.dedent( """\ #### Print the current date This task runs `date` by using the `bash_command` argument on `BashOperator`. In the Task Instance Details page, Airflow renders this documentation from the task's `doc_md` field. After this task succeeds, Airflow can run both downstream tasks: `sleep` and `templated`. ```bash date ``` Math fences are rendered with KaTeX. This tutorial starts one task and then branches into two downstream tasks: ```math 1\\ \\text{upstream task} + 2\\ \\text{downstream tasks} = 3\\ \\text{tasks} ``` The same dependency is shown as a Mermaid diagram: ```mermaid graph LR print_date[print_date] --> sleep[sleep] print_date --> templated[templated] ``` """ ) dag.doc_md = __doc__ # providing that you have a docstring at the beginning of the Dag; OR dag.doc_md = """ This is a documentation placed anywhere """ # otherwise, type it like this # [END documentation] # [START jinja_template] templated_command = textwrap.dedent( """ {% for i in range(5) %} echo "{{ ds }}" echo "{{ macros.ds_add(ds, 7)}}" {% endfor %} """ ) t3 = BashOperator( task_id="templated", depends_on_past=False, bash_command=templated_command, ) # [END jinja_template] t1 >> [t2, t3] # [END tutorial]

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