(Feb-01-2021, 04:07 PM)deanhystad Wrote: Could you provide more details about what it is you are trying to do?

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(Feb-01-2021, 06:26 PM)deanhystad Wrote: Need more details. What do you mean "when I type this[20, 20] I want this result (20, 20)"? Where are you typing? Are you trying to make a tool that sits between you and the interpreter changing keystrokes as you type? Are you trying to make a file processor that will scan a file and change some of the content?

Your description may sound clear to you, but you have all the context and I have none. You need to provide the context.

import tkinter as tk

translation = {'[':'(', ']':')', ';':','}

def translate(*args):
    outstr.set(''.join([translation.get(c, c) for c in inpstr.get()]))
    
root = tk.Tk()
inpstr = tk.StringVar()
outstr = tk.StringVar()

inpstr.trace('w', translate)

tk.Label(root, text='From Website:').pack(padx=5, pady=5)
tk.Entry(root, textvariable=inpstr, width=20).pack(padx=5, pady=5)

tk.Label(root, text='To Game:').pack(padx=5, pady=5)
tk.Entry(root, textvariable=outstr, width=20).pack(padx=5, pady=5)

tk.mainloop()

(Feb-01-2021, 08:22 PM)deanhystad Wrote: Let's make sure I understand.

You have a game. It takes input. The input has to have a certain format. You cannot change the game to accept a different format.

You have a website that provides input for your game. The information from the website is not in the correct format for your game.

You want a translator that will take the output from the website and convert it to a format that can be input to the game.

Is that correct?

If that is correct, I would write a really small GUI application (using tkinter for example). There would be a control for pasting text from the website, a function that translates the text, and a control that displays the translated text so it could be copied and pasted into your game.

import tkinter as tk

translation = {'[':'(', ']':')', ';':','}

def translate(*args):
    outstr.set(''.join([translation.get(c, c) for c in inpstr.get()]))
    
root = tk.Tk()
inpstr = tk.StringVar()
outstr = tk.StringVar()

inpstr.trace('w', translate)

tk.Label(root, text='From Website:').pack(padx=5, pady=5)
tk.Entry(root, textvariable=inpstr, width=20).pack(padx=5, pady=5)

tk.Label(root, text='To Game:').pack(padx=5, pady=5)
tk.Entry(root, textvariable=outstr, width=20).pack(padx=5, pady=5)

tk.mainloop()

(Feb-01-2021, 09:57 PM)deanhystad Wrote: There may be ways to automate the entire thing. I know for sure that you can scape the web information so you wouldn't have to open the web page and copy the info manually. Translation is obviously easy. The tricky bit would be entering the info into your game. Not sure how that would happen. Is the game text based?

>>> translator = str.maketrans({
...   '[': '(',
...   ']': ')',
...   ';': ','
... })
>>> "[-31; -52]".translate(translator)
'(-31, -52)'