Thank you, Chris. I was trying to avoid the xcode since I know didley about that too, but I'll download it and see if I can get it to run.
THANKS AGAIN Rick On Friday, March 8, 2013 3:51:44 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > 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 > > well, 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
