[scribus] python script result

[Gregory Pittman]

On 4/21/21 3:56 AM, JLuc wrote:
> Le 21/04/2021 à 01:00, Gregory Pittman a écrit :
>> On 4/20/21 5:15 PM, JLuc wrote:
>> I would say just experiment.
>> If a Scribus script writes to a file, what does a shell script say when it reads the file?
>> You could write the python so that it saves str(value), though when the shell script reads the file, that may not make any difference.
>> On the other hand, when python reads a file, it reads numbers as strings, so you have to convert to use them as a number in python.
> 
> I also tried outputing that string to a file.
> I started with the sample files on the wiki :
> https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Export_all_text
> 
> But i kept having issues :
> the "except Exception, e:" syntax looks wrong
> i had to change it to  "    except Exception as e:"
> and then it works fine.
> I'm not at ease enough with python so as to fix it in the wiki
> (all the more since there are several python versions).
> 
> Allthough i now got a shell-only script to do it,
> I also tried a page-count file-export scribus-python script :
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> import scribus
> pagenum = scribus.pageCount()
> T=[]
> T.append('pagecount=' + str(pagenum) + '\n\n')
> output_file = open('pagecount.txt', 'w')
> output_file.writelines(T)
> output_file.close()
> 
> But i got this error :
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 11, in <module>
>   File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
> OSError: [Errno 30] Système de fichiers accessible en lecture seulement: 'pagecount.txt'
> (EN : "read-only file : 'pagecount.txt'")
> 
> Do you see what's wrong here ?

Hmm. Perhaps you are trying to create 'pagecount.txt' in a directory that does not have write permissions?

Greg