Extracting scripts from these tutorials

Hopefully the scripts contained in this documentation are (a) useful and (b) work. They were however developed with CASA still a work in progress, and so scripts may break as commands, arguments, and keywords change. We developed this script extractor to allow us to easily extract scripts from these pages and run them. Feel free to try it!

How to Get the Script Extractor

Download the script extraction code.

# in bash
ftp ftp.cv.nrao.edu
# log in anonymously with e-mail as password
cd NRAO-staff/jgallimo
get extractCASAscript.py

Wget may be even simpler if you have it installed.

# in bash
wget ftp://ftp.cv.nrao.edu:/NRAO-staff/jgallimo/extractCASAscript.py

FTP didn't work?

Typical. Here's a copy of the source code, dated the day before Halloween, 2009.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# python script intended to extract CASA code from the CASA guide
# Wiki and collect it into a (CASA-executable) script. 
# Jack Gallimore 8/10/09
# Updated to accommodate new web host 10/30/09.


import urllib
import urllib2
import sys
import codecs
import re

# globals

# define formatting junk that needs to be filtered
# If I were cleverer with regex the ensuing loop would probably not be necessary.
junkStr = ["<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">"]
junkStr = junkStr + ["<div class=\"source-python\" style=\"font-family: monospace;\">"]
junkStr = junkStr + ["<pre>"]
junkStr = junkStr + ["</span>"]
junkStr = junkStr + ["</pre></div></div>"]
junkStr = junkStr + ["&#93;"]
junkStr = junkStr + ["&#91;"]
junkStr = junkStr + ["&#123;"]
junkStr = junkStr + ["&#125;"] # Daddy really needs to practice more regex
junkStr = junkStr + ["&nbsp;"]
paren1 = "&#40;"
paren2 = "&#41;"
quote1 = "&quot;"
substr1 = r"<span class=[^>]*>"


# define casa code blocks
beginBlock = "class=\"source-python\""
endBlock = "</pre></div></div>"


# function to clean up html strings (convert html markup to executable python)
def loseTheJunk(line):
    outline = line 
    outline = re.sub(substr1, r'', outline)
    for junk in junkStr:
        outline = outline.replace(junk, "")
    outline = outline.replace(quote1, "\"")
    outline = outline.replace(paren1, "(")
    outline = outline.replace(paren2, ")")
  #some additional parsing -- scripting has slightly different
    #syntax than interactive session for tget, default, and go
    #(presumably among others). 

    newline = outline
    newline = newline.replace(r'tget ', r'tget(')
    newline = newline.replace(r'default ', r'default(')
    newline = newline.replace(r'go', r'go(')
    if newline != outline: newline = newline + ')'
    outline = newline

    return outline
    

# start of main code

def main():
    try:
        baseURL = sys.argv[1]
    except:
        print 'No argument given.'
        print 'Syntax: extractCASAscript.py    \'http:blah.blah.edu/web_site/\''
        sys.exit(2)

    print "Rest assured. I'm trying to get " + baseURL + " for you now."
    outFile = baseURL.split('/')[-1] + '.py'
    outFile = outFile.replace("index.php?title=","")
    outFile = outFile.replace(":","")
    outFile = outFile.replace("_","")
    
    f = codecs.open(outFile, 'w','utf-8')
   
    
    req = urllib2.Request(baseURL)
    response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
    the_page = response.read().split("\n")
    
    iActive = 0
    print "Things are going well. Let me clean out some of that html markup."
    for line in the_page:
        if (iActive == 0):
            # see if this line begins a python code block
            temp = line.find(beginBlock)
            if temp > -1:
                iActive = 1
                outline = loseTheJunk(line)
                # make sure the endBlock isn't in the same line!
                temp = line.find(endBlock)
                if temp > -1:
                    iActive = 0
                line = "DontPrintMeBro" # avoid double printing if endBlock is on the same line
                #debug
                #print ""
                #print 'line = ' + line
                #print 'outline = ' + outline
                #print ""
                #debug
                print >>f, outline
        if (iActive == 1):
            if (line != "DontPrintMeBro"):
                outline = loseTheJunk(line)
                print >>f, outline
            temp = line.find(endBlock)
            if temp > -1:
                iActive = 0
    f.close()
    print "Great. I think I just wrote the file " + outFile + " in the current directory. No promises."
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

How to Use the Script Extractor

Make your newly acquired python script executable.

# in bash
chmod u+x extractCASAscript.py

To run it, issue the python script name and give the URL as the argument. For example:

# in bash
extractCASAscript.py http://casaguides.nrao.edu/index.php?title=Example:_Calibrating_a_VLA_continuum_survey

This command will automatically generate a script called "ExampleCalibratingaVLAcontinuumsurvey.py"

--Admin 20:42, 3 November 2009 (UTC)