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Re: Using Python instead of Bash

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On 2015-05-31, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> wrote:

> I help someone that has problems reading. For this I take photo's of
> text, use convert from ImageMagick to make a good contrast (original
> paper is grey) and use lpr to print it a little bigger.
>
> Normally I would implement this in Bash, but I thought it a good idea
> to implement it in Python.

Why?  Is it difficult to do/maintain in Bash?

If you want to write Python, then you should write Python.  You're
still writing Bash, so you should probably do it in Bash.  If you just
want to invoke a set of external programs on a set of files, then Bash
is probably the right language to use: that's pretty much what Bash is
for: manipulating files by invoking other programs.

> This is my first try:
>     import glob
>     import subprocess
>
>     treshold = 66
>     count = 0
>     for input in sorted(glob.glob('*.JPG')):
>         count += 1
>         output = '{0:02d}.png'.format(count)
>         print('Going to convert {0} to {1}'.format(input, output))
>         p = subprocess.Popen(['convert', '-threshold', '{0}%'.format(treshold), input, output])
>         p.wait()
>         print('Going to print {0}'.format(output))
>         p = subprocess.Popen(['lpr', '-o', 'fit-to-page', '-o', 'media=A4', output])
>         p.wait()
>
> There have to be some improvements: display before printing,
> possibility to change threshold, … But is this a good start, or
> should I do it differently?

If all the work is being done by making a series of calls to 
subprocess, then you should think about using bash instead.

If you really do want to do this in Python, you can use a Python
binding to the ImageMagick libraries:

  https://wiki.python.org/moin/ImageMagick
  http://www.imagemagick.org/download/python/
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7895278/can-i-access-imagemagick-api-with-python

Or maybe you can use Pillow:

  http://pillow.readthedocs.org/
  https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow  
  https://python-pillow.github.io/
  
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Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-31 14:42 +0200
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Alain Ketterlin <alain@universite-de-strasbourg.fr.invalid> - 2015-05-31 16:02 +0200
    Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-31 18:36 +0200
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cem Karan <cfkaran2@gmail.com> - 2015-05-31 10:14 -0400
    Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-31 18:58 +0200
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-05-31 11:05 -0400
    Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-31 19:06 +0200
      Re: Using Python instead of Bash Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-05-31 20:53 -0400
        Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 11:25 +0200
      Re: Using Python instead of Bash Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-01 09:11 +0200
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-05-31 22:08 -0700
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-06-01 00:56 -0700
    Re: Using Python instead of Bash Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-06-01 11:06 +0300
      Re: Using Python instead of Bash alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-06-01 09:07 +0000
        Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 12:44 +0200
          Re: Using Python instead of Bash Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-01 17:44 +0200
            Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 18:44 +0200
              Re: Using Python instead of Bash Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-01 20:42 +0200
                Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 21:57 +0200
                Re: Using Python instead of Bash Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-01 22:42 +0200
                Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 23:04 +0200
    Re: Using Python instead of Bash Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 11:11 +0200
      Re: Using Python instead of Bash Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-01 12:38 +0300
  Re: Using Python instead of Bash Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-01 14:51 +0000

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