Hi Dom, Glad you found it useful.
I'm definitely not a regex wizard... on the rare occasions I use it, I pretty much have to learn it again from scratch! However, I was tempted by the challenge. Give this a try: [s for s in re.split(r"[\[\]]", twlist) if s.strip()] N. On 3 March 2018 at 23:19, Dom Gittins <[email protected]> wrote: > Neil, > > I have just discover TiddlPy and wanted to drop you a quick note to say > thank you. > I have been trying to work out how to post TiddlyWiki pages into graph > database (neo4j) nodes for ages ... and you have made it immeasurably > easier ! > > One quick question - you look like a bit of a regex wizard. > Have you come up with a simple bit of python to convert a TiddlyWiki list > (e.g. tags) into a nice clean comma-delimited list of text items without > square brackets ? > I've done it with a bit of regex and some looping, but can't help thinking > I'm missing some super-simple one-step regex substitution or something ... > Wondered if you had already cracked this ??? > > Thanks again - this is really handy, > > Dom Gittins > > On Friday, 13 February 2015 12:50:22 UTC, Neil Griffin wrote: >> >> A little over a year ago, I discovered both TW and Python and since then, >> it seems that the solution to pretty much every problem has been to use one >> or other of them. It was only a matter of time before I felt the need to >> get them working together. >> >> As a result, I have written a little Python module that allows me to >> perform the essential functions of reading, searching and writing to >> tiddlers in the store area of a local single-file TiddlyWiki. I thought >> this might be of interest to some others here, so I have put it up on >> Github for people to play with if they like. There appears to have been >> something similar for TW Classic, but I've not seen anything for TW5. >> https://github.com/ng110/TiddlPy ('TiddlyPy' was already used by the >> TWC Python library). >> >> >> *PLEASE NOTE*: Because this has the ability to edit a TW file and >> overwrite the original, there may well be unforeseen side-effects that I >> have not yet discovered, so *BACK UP* any valuable data before using. >> There are quite likely to be bugs, so I make no claims for the reliability. >> >> >> So far, it has worked well for me in my first application, which is as a >> news reader. I am scraping news pages from the website of my local >> newspaper (which is horribly overloaded with intrusive adverts) and >> dropping them into a dedicated TiddlyWiki. A scheduled task runs my Python >> script to keep it regularly updated. As well as avoiding the ads, it also >> allows me to browse the news offline. >> >> The ability to automate moving data in and out of a local TW file opens >> up all sorts of possibilities. Here are some ideas: >> >> - Extracting information from websites for >> formatting/viewing/searching etc in TW >> - Tools for importing various data formats into TW >> - Exchanging information between different TW files >> - Communicating between different computers (using a file >> synchronised with Dropbox etc). This could allow you to use TW on one >> device as a control panel that sends instructions / reads data from one or >> more remote machines that might be controlling an experiments / a home >> security system, etc. >> - New WikiText markup that provides instructions to an external >> Python script. For example, it could instruct the script to download an >> image or other file from a specified URL, drop the file into a local >> directory and then replace the markup with a link to the saved file. >> Possible security issues there, but you'd have to hack both my TW and my >> Python code. >> >> ... of course, any of this could be done with the language of your >> choice, if you are not a Python fan. >> >> I would be interested to know if anyone finds this useful, or if they can >> spot any potential problems in writing to a TW file in this way. Obviously >> there is the risk of lost changes if Python tries to write at the same time >> as someone is editing, though this already exists as a problem when using a >> file synchronised between different computers. >> >> Enjoy, >> >> Neil. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/tiddlywiki/BBM5IyiLGsI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/tiddlywiki/f0b77574-f913-4326-8ff5-09c17e18100a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f0b77574-f913-4326-8ff5-09c17e18100a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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