rewrite from 2018

LICENSE.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2020 Harvey Tindall
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

README.md

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 # typeprint.py
 
-A terrible python script to output the contents of a file as if it were being typed by one of the l33t hack3rs you get in films. I made this because vypr's [typeprint](http://github.com/vypr/typeprint) didn't have an easy way to change the speed of output.
+Python script to print text/files character-by-character, originally intended for a retro terminal emulator.
 
 # Usage
 
 ```
-typeprint.py --ifile <input file> --speed <1 - 5>
+typeprint.py [-f|--file] [-s|--speed] <speed> <input>
 ```
+* `--speed`: specifies interval between each printed character.
+* `--file`: specifies `<input>` is a file, not text.

typeprint.py

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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-import sys, time, getopt
-
-
-def main(argv):
-   inputfile = ''
-   speed = '5'
-   try:
-      opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv,"hi:s",["ifile=", "speed="])
-   except getopt.GetoptError:
-      print 'typeprint.py --ifile <inputfile> --speed <1 - 5>'
-      sys.exit(2)
-   for opt, arg in opts:
-      if opt in ("-i", "--ifile"):
-         inputfile = arg
-      elif opt in ("-s", "--speed"):
-         speed = arg 
-   wspeed = 0
-   if speed == '1':
-       wspeed = 0.5
-   elif speed == '2':
-       wspeed = 0.4
-   elif speed == '3':
-       wspeed = 0.3
-   elif speed == '4':
-       wspeed = 0.2
-   elif speed == '5':
-       wspeed = 0.1
-   with open(inputfile, "r") as file:
-     while 1 == 1:
-       readnum = file.read(1)
-       time.sleep(wspeed)
-       sys.stdout.write(readnum)
-       sys.stdout.flush()
-       if not readnum:
-         sys.exit()
-
-
-
-main(sys.argv[1:])
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import sys, time, argparse, errno, os
+from pathlib import Path
+
+def print_file(file, speed):
+    if not Path(file).is_file():
+        raise FileNotFoundError(errno.ENOENT, os.strerror(errno.ENOENT), file)
+    else:
+        with open(file, "r") as rfile:
+            done = False
+            while not done:
+                pos = rfile.read(1)
+                sys.stdout.write(pos)
+                sys.stdout.flush()
+                if not pos:
+                    done = True
+                time.sleep(speed)
+
+def print_input(input, speed):
+    for letter in input:
+        sys.stdout.write(letter)
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+        time.sleep(speed)
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+parser.add_argument("input", help="string or name of file to be printed.")
+parser.add_argument("-f", "--file", help="specifies that the input is a file. If not used, input is interpreted as string.", action='store_true')
+parser.add_argument("-s", "--speed", help="delay between printing each character in seconds. defaults to 0.1 if not specified.", type=float)
+args = parser.parse_args()
+if not args.speed:
+    args.speed = 0.1
+if args.file:
+    print_file(args.input, args.speed)
+else:
+    print_input(args.input, args.speed)