Changeset ad678a4

Timestamp:

2015-05-17T03:41:31Z (10 years ago)

Author:

dequis <dx@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

baa09cc

Parents:

d6acf79

Message:

genhelp.py: take input/output parameters

File:

• doc/user-guide/genhelp.py (modified) (3 diffs)

doc/user-guide/genhelp.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-#
+
+# Usage: python genhelp.py input.xml output.txt
+# (Both python2 (>=2.5) or python3 work)
+
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -18 +21 @@
 
 import re
+import sys
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 
-IN_FILE = 'help.xml'
-OUT_FILE = 'help.txt'
 NORMALIZE_RE = re.compile(r"([^<>\s\t])[\s\t]+([^<>\s\t])")
 
@@ -216 +218 @@
 
 def main():
-    txt = process_file(IN_FILE)
-    open(OUT_FILE, "w").write(txt)
+    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
+        print("Usage: python genhelp.py input.xml output.txt")
+        return
+
+    txt = process_file(sys.argv[1])
+    open(sys.argv[2], "w").write(txt)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':