A few years ago (2004, to be precise) I wrote, with some advice from this list, a script that generated a calendar in Scribus. As the year draws to a close, I was thinking I might create a calendar for next year so I pulled out the script and tried to run it in a more recent Scribus but it won't run.
I have Scribus 1.3.4 on Windows XP and Python 2.5. I found and fixed a number of problems with the script. I have in the code, I bunch of places where objects, either Image or Text, are created and then appended to an Objects collection. Please excuse me if I use the wrong terms but I don't really know Python -- Perl and PHP are more my thing. Anyway, take these four lines of code: ob = createImage(Xmgn, Ymgn, dayw*7, ImgHt, "Image" + str(Mn)) Objects.append(ob) ob = createText(Xmgn, 2*Ymgn+ImgHt, dayw*7, TextHt, "Text" + str(Mn)) Objects.append(ob) The third line, where I try to create the text object causes an error that identifies that line and says: NameExistsError: An object with the requested name already exists. What is odd is this script used to run. I thought this was due to a change in Python but when I searched on "NameExistsError" the first thing I found was on the Scribus site. I had assumed it was the existence of "ob" that was the problem. The page I found, which says I'll get this error makes it sound like it's the "Text"+str(Mn) that's being reused, not ob. Is that right? But Mn is the month and it is incremented between each use so it shouldn't be the same twice. Any advice would be appreciated. If you need to see more code to be able to help, I'd be happy to provide it. -- Henry
