On Jan 18, 2005, at 02:59, Jack Cruzan wrote:
Wouldn't it though! I haven't checked but doesn't he use xml for his equipment lists - if that was the case it would be worth it to ask him for those files 'eh?
Last time I checked, he didn't. I have the DAT files here (extracted them off a Windows installation of the program) and have been trying to write a Python script that would convert them to XML.
However, the file format is exotic and inconsistent (just like VB, some would say ;) ), so I haven't found a way yet to write an "universal converter": the script has to be modified for each file. I'm pleased neither with this solution, nor with the way my script looks: it's ugly.
At some point, such a converter will have to be written, though, unless you want to go through the extreme pleasure of going through 1 meg of text files by hand.
Hmm, I really should try to start working again on this web-based SRCG idea of mine... The whole thing just screams "database". Daaargh, so many things to do, so little time. I suppose no good mod_python tutorials have spawned since last time I asked, right?
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