I've documented these features http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Command_line_scripts
can you have a look and improve when usefull ? Thanks JL Le 13/09/2015 03:29, William Bader a ?crit : >> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net >> From: gpittman at iglou.com >> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 20:03:23 -0400 >> Subject: Re: [scribus] Patch submitted for Command Line Arguments to be >> passed to python script >> >> I wonder if someone could manage to write some documentation on how to >> use this new capability. >> >> It seems that entering -someargv value1 as parameters is not very >> helpful instructions. >> >> What is it that the script is expecting? >> >> Do scripts have to have this 'def main(argv)' structure in order to work? >> >> Not all of us are using this routinely. Python certainly doesn't require it. >> >> Greg > I posted a small example a while ago at > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13311#c36071 (the python script is > attached to the mantis page). > Berteh's patch lets you pass arbitrary flags and arguments to the python > script. > For example, my example script inserts text into a text frame in an SLA file. > Instead of hard-coding the name of the text file in the script, you can pass > it on the command line with "scribus -g -py storydeptharg.py --python-arg > -storyfile sample.txt depthtemplate.sla" (I'm not sure about the final syntax > that they settled on.) > The python script the sees an argv that contains "-storyfile" and > "sample.txt". > The command line options are very useful for anyone who is trying to script > Scribus from another program, perhaps to create documents or to export > documents to PDF. > Without the command line patch, you have to hard-code the file names or you > have to generate a customized script each time or you have to pass arguments > through environment variables. > I think that the command line comes from sys.argv, so you might be able to > use "def main():" and then look at sys.argv. > My example has > def main(argv): > ... > if __name__ == '__main__': > main(sys.argv) > > Regards, > William Bader, Director of Research and Development, SCS, > http://www.newspapersystems.com > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20150912/cba5d64e/attachment.html> > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net >
