[sword-devel] A call for Python programmers ...

[DM Smith]

Python is a pretty easy language for a programmer to learn. I’ve read a book on how to program in it. There’s a nice tutorial on the python website. But I’ve not done any serious programming in python. Just maintenance and debugging.

The only thing I found bothersome was the strict use of indentation for defining blocks.

Basically, in C a block is either a single statement or a set of statements surrounded by { and }.

In many languages blocks are set off by keywords.
if cond
then
stmts
else
stmts
fi

Not so in python. It is solely indicated by indentation. A change in indentation means a new block is started or an old block is continued.

I’d imagine an editor that is python aware would be a help.

In Him,
	DM

> On Dec 29, 2014, at 11:25 AM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Barry,
> 
> The Perl script was not comprehensive in terms of USFM tag coverage.
> No further work is expected for usfm2osis.pl
> usfm2osis.pl is now deprecated. 
> 
> The Python script really is the way forward, despite its issues.  Please see 
> http://crosswire.org/wiki/Converting_SFM_Bibles_to_OSIS#usfm2osis.py
> 
> David
> 
> 
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