Re: does python have the ability to detect the color of a string in SPSS syntax.
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I was thinking of ways
to help writers like myself be consistent in our syntax.
I thought there might be a way to grab (1) what had already been parsed by the SE to display the syntax in the window and (2) what was in the options for coloring . Something like "The SE has this word in bold nonitalic nonunderlined blue so according to the user's options therefore it is a command"etc. etc. I would like to be more consistent in my casing of words in syntax. I could look at such a list and go back and replace all such strings with a correctly cased string. commands: GET DATA get data Get Data subcommands TYPE type Type Variables: Age AGE dateofbirth DateofBirth DateOfBirth In the long run it would be useful if syntax in teaching material or emails could be colored as it is in the SE. Now it would be a very error prone process to have the syntax as text but manually colored. Of course there are screen snips. GET DATA /TYPE=XLSX /FILE= BOOK /SHEET=name '1988' /CELLRANGE=full /READNAMES=on /ASSUMEDSTRWIDTH=32767. Takes a lot of back and forth with the mail editor Art Kendall Social Research ConsultantsOn 5/17/2013 4:30 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam [via SPSSX Discussion] wrote:
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Re: does python have the ability to detect the color of a string in SPSS syntax.
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The scripting api for getting the syntax
window contents just returns plain text.
Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim Senior Software Engineer, IBM [hidden email] phone: 720-342-5621 From: Art Kendall <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email], Date: 05/17/2013 03:48 PM Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] does python have the ability to detect the color of a string in SPSS syntax. Sent by: "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <[hidden email]> I was thinking of ways to help writers like myself be consistent in our syntax. I thought there might be a way to grab (1) what had already been parsed by the SE to display the syntax in the window and (2) what was in the options for coloring . Something like "The SE has this word in bold nonitalic nonunderlined blue so according to the user's options therefore it is a command"etc. etc. I would like to be more consistent in my casing of words in syntax. I could look at such a list and go back and replace all such strings with a correctly cased string. commands: GET DATA get data Get Data subcommands TYPE type Type Variables: Age AGE dateofbirth DateofBirth DateOfBirth In the long run it would be useful if syntax in teaching material or emails could be colored as it is in the SE. Now it would be a very error prone process to have the syntax as text but manually colored. Of course there are screen snips. GET DATA /TYPE=XLSX /FILE= BOOK /SHEET=name '1988' /CELLRANGE=full /READNAMES=on /ASSUMEDSTRWIDTH=32767. Takes a lot of back and forth with the mail editor Art Kendall Social Research Consultants On 5/17/2013 4:30 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam [via SPSSX Discussion] wrote: Hi Art, In the spss install dir you can find a large amount of xml files, one for each command. These contain the command definitions (commands, subcommands, keywords, etc). Then you would still need to write a function that "tokenizes" each command in a given .sps and compares it to the relevant xml file. Why do you want to do this, if I may ask? Regards, Albert-Jan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Art Kendall <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 9:56 PM Subject: [SPSSX-L] does python have the ability to detect the color of a string inSPSS syntax. In the syntax window coloring is used to distinguish commands subcommands keywords values and comments. Is there a way to have python parse syntax and produce a dataset with variables like color bold italic command/subcommand/keyword word -- Art Kendall Social Research Consultants Art Kendall View this message in context: does python have the ability to detect the color of a string inSPSS syntax. Sent from the SPSSX Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/does-python-have-the-ability-to-detect-the-color-of-a-string-inSPSS-syntax-tp5720314p5720316.html To start a new topic under SPSSX Discussion, email [hidden email] To unsubscribe from SPSSX Discussion, click here. NAML Art Kendall View this message in context: Re: does python have the ability to detect the color of a string in SPSS syntax. Sent from the SPSSX Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
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Could this be done with the listings package in LaTeX?
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>I was thinking of ways to help writers like myself be consistent in our syntax.
> >I thought there might be a way to grab (1) what had already been parsed by the SE to display the syntax in the window and (2) what was in the options for coloring. Something like "The SE has this word in bold nonitalic nonunderlined blue so according to the user's options therefore it is a command"etc. etc. > >I would like to be more consistent in my casing of words in syntax. I could look at such a list andgo back and replace all such strings with a correctly cased string. >commands: > GET DATA > get data > Get Data Do you know Sphinx? This is a documentation tool, based on reStructredText. One of the features is that one can easily insert properly colour-coded code snippets in the documentation. For example, PyPi.org, the site for python packages uses it, and IPython, too. Many languages are supported, e.g Python, but also SQL, Matlab, Octave, R... but not yet SPSS! To implement it, one needs to write a Pygments lexer. The lexer would know what a command is, what a subcommand, etc. The cool thing is that writing documentation is also easy, once the lexer is there. http://sphinx-doc.org/index.html http://pygments.org/docs/lexerdevelopment/ Last year, I did an analysis on thousands of syntaxes to make a top 100 of the most commonly used commands. For most commands I could use a simple regex, e.g. re.match("^([-+.]? *com[a-z]*) ", s, re.IGNORECASE) would be a COMPUTE command, possibly in a DO IF (preceded by +-.). A command is often the first non-comment word after a period. But there are exceptions, e.g. in the macro language. Luckily I only needed to get a broad impression, because to get it *exactly* right is harder. def getCommand(cmd): """a very crude command prettifier""" regex = "^%s[a-z]*) " % cmd[:3] m = re.match(regex, s, re.IGNORECASE) if m: return allCmds.get(m.group(1), cmd) return cmd >subcommands > TYPE > type > Type > >Variables: > Age > AGE > > dateofbirth > DateofBirth > DateOfBirth > >In the long run it would be useful if syntax in teaching material or emails could be colored as it is in the SE. Now it would be a very error prone process to have the syntax as text but manually colored. Of course there are screen snips. > >GET DATA /TYPE=XLSX > /FILE= BOOK > /SHEET=name '1988' > /CELLRANGE=full > /READNAMES=on > /ASSUMEDSTRWIDTH=32767. > >Takes a lot of back and forth with the mail editor > >Art Kendall On 5/17/2013 4:30 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam [via SPSSX Discussion] wrote: > >Hi Art, >> >>In the spss install dir you can find a large amount of xml files, one for each command. These contain the command definitions (commands, subcommands, keywords, etc). Then you would still need to write a function that "tokenizes" each command in a given .sps and compares it to the relevant xml file. Why do you want to do this, if I may ask? >> >> >> >> >>Regards, >>Albert-Jan >> >> >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, >>fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> >>>________________________________ >>> From: Art Kendall <[hidden email]> >>>To: [hidden email] >>>Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 9:56 PM >>>Subject: [SPSSX-L] does python have the ability to detect the color of a string inSPSS syntax. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>In the syntax window coloring is used to distinguish commands subcommands keywords values and comments. >>> >>>Is there a way to have python parse syntax and >>>produce a dataset with variables like color bold >>> >>>-- Art Kendall Social Research Consultants >>>Art Kendall >>>Social Research Consultants >>>>>>________________________________ >>> View this message in context: does python have the ability to detect the color of a string inSPSS syntax. >>>Sent from the SPSSX Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >>> >> >>>>________________________________ >> >>If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below:http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/does-python-have-the-ability-to-detect-the-color-of-a-string-inSPSS-syntax-tp5720314p5720316.html >>To start a new topic under SPSSX Discussion, email [hidden email] >>To unsubscribe from SPSSX Discussion, click here. >>NAML > >Art Kendall >Social Research Consultants >>________________________________ > View this message in context: Re: does python have the ability to detect the color of a string in SPSS syntax. >Sent from the SPSSX Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD |
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