Possible python scripst improvements?

[blattms]

• Would be cool to have a working default for --maindir if the scripts are called from the root directory of the git repo checkout
• --filename option is misleading as it actually needs a path. Maybe it is better to skip name and just use --file?

[hakonhagland]

Would be cool to have a working default for --maindir if the scripts are called from the root directory of the git repo

@blattms Maybe.. I always called the scripts like this:

$ cd scripts/python
$ poetry shell
$ fodt-remove-span-tags --filename=main.fodt

then --maindir is not needed since the default value is ../../parts. If we call the script from the root of the git repo instead we need to specify --maindir like this:

$ fodt-remove-span-tags --filename=main.fodt --maindir=parts

since now the maindir is in parts relative to the root.

[blattms]

Why a user should cd into a subirectory to call a script? So the filename is a path relative to maindir?

[hakonhagland]

Good point. The idea was that these scripts might not be something that you want to install globally on your system since they are only useful inside the opm-reference-manual repository. So then the user should rather activate the poetry virtual environment before running the scripts.

[hakonhagland]

I agree that the scripts behave strangely/unexpectedly if installed globally. I will try to fix it.