From 3e567a529ef0fb6fc0fda52674b21cc53d85caf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BodgeMaster <>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 09:59:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] removed old variable grabbler

---
 variable_grabbler.py.old | 97 ----------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 97 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 variable_grabbler.py.old

diff --git a/variable_grabbler.py.old b/variable_grabbler.py.old
deleted file mode 100644
index 6fa83d5..0000000
--- a/variable_grabbler.py.old
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python2
-
-print """
-Variable Grabbler - version 4.0_pre6
-------------------------------------"""
-################################################################
-# Changes in this version:
-#===============================================================
-# *"\?" in a variable will now be replaced with a simple ?
-#  before processing, remember to double escape that because
-#  json doesn't like \? (=> \\?)
-# *commands are now not run over and over again if not needed
-# *files are now not rewritten for each variable individually
-# *some technical stuff
-
-################################################################
-# Exit codes:
-#===============================================================
-# 0 => normal exit
-# 1 => command line argument error
-# 2 => error while processing
-#
-
-# definitions
-import os, json, sys, subprocess
-
-def print_err(text):
-  print >> sys.stderr, text
-
-if not len(sys.argv)==3:
-  print_err("Error: Exactly two arguments required: \"python variable_grabbler.py <file to be rewritten> <config file>\"")
-  sys.exit(1)
-
-print "Reading config file...",
-config_file = open(sys.argv[2],"r")
-config_values = json.loads(config_file.read().decode("utf-8"))
-config_file.close()
-print "Done."
-
-
-print "Reading file: "+sys.argv[1]+"..."
-file_in = open(sys.argv[1], "r")
-file_content = file_in.read()
-file_in.close()
-
-print "Replacing variables:"
-for variable in config_values:
-  print "> "+variable.upper()+" => ",
-
-  if config_values[variable][0] == "file":
-    print "Found array. Adding file instead: " + config_values[variable][1]
-    file_replacement = open(config_values[variable][1], "r")
-    file_content = file_content.decode('utf-8').replace("%" + variable.upper() + "%", file_replacement.read()).encode('utf-8')
-    file_replacement.close()
-  elif config_values[variable][0] == "exec":
-    print "Found array. Executing command instead: " + config_values[variable][1]
-    if variable.upper() in file_content:
-      process = subprocess.Popen(config_values[variable][1], shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
-      stdout, stderr = process.communicate()
-      if process.returncode == 0:
-        print "Process exited normally. Replacing variable with the output from STDOUT..."
-        print_err("Subprocess exited normally.\nThe following error messages were produced:")
-        print_err(stderr)
-        file_content = file_content.decode('utf-8').replace("%" + variable.upper() + "%", stdout).encode('utf-8')
-      else:
-        print "Process exited abnormally. Exiting. No changes will be made."
-        print_err("Subprocess exited abnormally. Exiting.\nThe following output was produced:")
-        print_err(stdout)
-        print_err("The following error messages were produced:")
-        print_err(stderr)
-        print "Exiting now."
-        sys.exit(2)
-    else:
-      print variable.upper(),
-      print "was not found in the file. Skipping command execution."
-  else:
-    replacement = str(config_values[variable])
-    # look for variable sections that contain question marks
-    argument_positions = []
-    i = 0
-    while i<len(replacement):
-      if replacement[i] == '?' and (i==0 or not replacement[i-1]=='\\'):
-        argument_positions = argument_positions + [ i ]
-      i = i+1
-    #print "DEBUG: " + str(argument_positions)
-    replacement = replacement.replace("\\?", "?")
-    print repr(replacement)
-    # actually replace variables
-    if argument_positions == []:
-      file_content = file_content.decode('utf-8').replace("%" + variable.upper() + "%", replacement).encode('utf-8')
-
-print "Saving new file..."
-file_out = open(sys.argv[1], "w")
-file_out.write(file_content)
-file_out.close()
-
-print "Done."