doughphunghus
commented
3 years ago I do appreciate the offer but I'm not very literate with python so I don't think I could use it as an alternate (other than just running it as-is) as I wouldn't be able to easily maintain/update it if I wanted to make further changes and I would want to post it here on Github for others to use/modify. I do agree that the randomizer.pl script has a lot ;) of issues as its mostly just thrown together to see if the idea was feasible, and feature creep occurred, etc.
However, having said that, and if you don't want to post your version on Github I would be interested on the names of the module/libraries you used in python to perform any XML parsing/manipulation. I would like to see how Python handles the XML query/get/set operations vs Perl. Perl has been around for a long time and as a result a lot of its freely available modules on CPAN are old/out of date and sometimes its not easy to choose modules/libraries that are maintained and easy to use and up to date with the latest standards (hence the "Modern Perl" vs "old Perl ways" debacle). Python has been around for awhile but it seems they are less of a victim of time/age (and open source library/module bloat) than Perl and are more up to date with the latest standards even though I see them going through the same growing pains that Perl went through long ago, meaning there are areas where Python is still a little rough (IMHO). Specifically the "Python 2 "vs "Python 3" compatibility debacle (which is basically over and done with now, as I see it), and some other things Python still does that feel like they're still figuring out how they want to do things in a "Pythonic" way (like string formatting). But I ramble on, and I really don't keep up with Python enough to be on top of things, so maybe I'm already out of date on the subject ;)
bchoinski-cb
Not an issue as much as an alternate. We liked your module, had a few issues with it. I made a Python version of it that I can run locally, SHOULD work fine with your configs but does a few things differently. If you can email me (at bchoinski@verizon.net), I can send you my python source variant (and config file I used), if you want to compare or use it as an alternate.