Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python.': 0.02; 'output': 0.04; 'subject:skip:s 10': 0.05; 'tests,': 0.07; 'wrapper': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'porting': 0.09; 'throws': 0.09; 'url:github': 0.09; 'worse': 0.09; 'language,': 0.11; 'sat,': 0.15; "(i'm": 0.16; 'buggy': 0.16; 'directly?': 0.16; 'fiddle': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'handling.': 0.16; 'hmm.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'fix': 0.17; 'comparing': 0.17; 'version.': 0.17; 'code,': 0.18; 'written': 0.20; 'all,': 0.21; 'fairly': 0.21; 'errors': 0.23; "python's": 0.23; 'third-party': 0.23; 'seems': 0.23; 'thus': 0.24; 'idea': 0.24; 'script': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; '(which': 0.26; 'am,': 0.27; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.27; 'run': 0.28; 'end,': 0.29; 'markup': 0.29; 'piece': 0.29; 'subject:other': 0.29; 'convert': 0.29; 'code': 0.31; 'implement': 0.32; 'mac': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'version': 0.34; 'received:google.com': 0.34; 'text': 0.34; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'received:209.85': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'smaller': 0.36; 'execute': 0.37; 'being': 0.37; 'detail': 0.37; 'ones': 0.37; 'rather': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'there,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'help': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'chance': 0.61; 'potentially': 0.66; 'yourself': 0.77; '2013': 0.84; 'subject:Any': 0.84; 'rick': 0.91 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Mc0QP7oenDsg+SNDa6yfl9BIPA6T6dqxaelguuk2UV4=; b=rmjrSfgkOgSJgISwHqifEKEyLuKu2zfj1sebh+kWovUXDD9ZVpta5QdUeqWf8clRMq 778MaAWJSc+d3DJiRkf9raVJ2Xt3tHXyezIG6O3+XzxPWiLqAsfgczow0l6Ob70Gvx7I yK2YRPeZpYX8kui0i9zYW8C5SpFrha8bW2oAgFIvDNuygypOsAB3Lp4A0YYiaZrzMcWl DNjq1VaDU7Wa2oqVIWR6Q/rkKimlq+ZDPjzF3FLHwZXI3PM3iyOw2sEG/IFOsKnQYYxL JazmdBdbu4S+pH8ViARuCZDiLwwiqh4mP8nMLxHm+5yebblPPulEi1iJkyqKZ6r9OBIA AJpg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.212.104 with SMTP id nj8mr648779pbc.197.1362779504807; Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:51:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:51:44 +1100 Subject: Re: Any other screenwriters? From: Chris Angelico To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1362779514 news.xs4all.nl 6848 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:37161 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:40906 On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Rick Dooling wrote: > To that end, I would like to take this Ruby script (which works pretty we= ll, but throws errors in Mac OS X; some Ruby ones and some Prince ones) and= convert it to Python so I can fix it myself, because I don't know Ruby at = all, and would rather work in Python. > > https://github.com/olivertaylor/Textplay Hmm. You're looking at a fairly detailed markup language, and a potentially buggy third-party implementation of it. Are you able to go from the https://github.com/nyousefi/Fountain code instead? Given that you don't know Ruby at all, you'd be no worse off there, and it seems to be the "reference implementation". Porting either version to Python is going to be a big job, unfortunately. However, given that the reference implementation seems to have been written for a Mac, you have a reasonable chance of being able to execute the code, run the tests, and play with it, while you develop your own version. That's a *huge* help in porting - you can implement piece by piece, comparing in detail both the code and the output of each subsection. Alternatively, can you get the xcode version to run directly? (I'm not a Mac person and have no idea whether this is at all possible.) Can you call on it, in some way, and thus write just a wrapper around the outside? Might be a smaller job. Ultimately, you're working with a markup format. That means it's all text in, fiddle fiddle, text out... a workflow that Python's pretty good at handling. But you may be letting yourself in for a fairly big job :) ChrisA