This worked for me too, but I removed the -e switch because it was winding up in the stattion name. Man echo didn't show me a -e option.
So this is good enough for me now, but I am interested to see what Vince uncevers too. This worked for me: > > > *echo -e "hood river\n700, foot\n45\n-125\nn\nmetric\n3\n" | python3 > ./setup.py install* > > Adding new options to setup.py adds a LOT of complexity. Hence, the > decision to get rid of it. > > -tk > -- Tom Mitchell t...@tom.org Real Time Beverly, MA Weather http://weather.tom.org "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:59 PM Tom Keffer <tkef...@gmail.com> wrote: > This worked for me: > > > *echo -e "hood river\n700, foot\n45\n-125\nn\nmetric\n3\n" | python3 > ./setup.py install* > > Adding new options to setup.py adds a LOT of complexity. Hence, the > decision to get rid of it. > > -tk > > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:43 PM Vince Skahan <vinceska...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 6:36:24 PM UTC-7, Tom Keffer wrote: >>> >>> echo "hood river\n700,foot\n45\n-125\nmetric\n6\n\n\n" | python >>> ./setup.py install >>> >>> NB: this worked for V3.x. Version 4 asks the user whether s/he wants to >>> register the station, so you'd have to add that. >>> >>>> >>>> >> Yeah, that's a fail for me here. No matter how many \n are in there, it >> barfs right around the altitude prompt. You might want to try it on your >> system and see if you have better luck. >> >> >> Rather than battle that much more, I'm trying to re-add the old >> --no-prompt option back in (and hopefully send you a PR) and I'd appreciate >> some pointers on my approach. What I was thinking was adding a >> command-line option to setup.py again, and simply returning a default set >> of values if that option is set. >> >> So in bin/weecfg/__init.py I'd add this to prompt_for_info() at the >> top....and something similar in prompt_for_driver() as well. >> >> >> + if defaultConfig: >> + default_stn_info = {} >> + default_stn_info['location'] = "My Little Town, Oregon" >> + default_stn_info['altitude'] = [700, 'foot'] >> + default_stn_info['latitude'] = 45 >> + default_stn_info['longitude'] = -121 >> + default_stn_info['register_this_station'] = "false" >> + default_stn_info['units'] = "us" >> + return default_stn_info >> + >> >> >> If I hard define defaultConfig at the top of the file right under your >> DEFAULT_URL variable, the code works as expected. If it's set True, it >> skips prompts nicely. If not, it prompts. Exactly what I'm looking for. >> But it's hard-wired and of course needs to be more flexible. >> >> Question I have is how would I get a setup.py commandline option to this >> routine in __init.py__ for weecfg ? >> >> I guess I'm a bit lost in the internals of how all this stuff is put >> together under the hood. Pointers appreciated. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-development" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/6732c32d-6164-4796-a2e7-eeef2d691d80%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/6732c32d-6164-4796-a2e7-eeef2d691d80%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-development" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-development/hT3m5qKheeU/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/CAPq0zEDezPQDrhoUSCjCe5rcPyRCLYkM0Cgaicu3D7Y-LCVpjA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/CAPq0zEDezPQDrhoUSCjCe5rcPyRCLYkM0Cgaicu3D7Y-LCVpjA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/CAKVzASDEtv0kTQMvppTAYixX7fa3N7nSd09rpLLu3HZLqr6fMw%40mail.gmail.com.
