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On 2018-12-21 22:55:41 +0000, John Smallberries said:
> On 2018-12-21 21:24:23 +0000, symm said:
>
>> On 2018-11-28 17:06:08 +0000, John Smallberries said:
>>
>>> ...
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>> I hacked a few different versions together a few months ago.
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>> The simpliest just spits out the missing issues without condensing
>> sequential missing issues (e.g. "101, 102, 103" instead of "101-103")
>> from #1 to the last issue found (so it doesn't list missing issues
>> after the last number found. The simple version uses Python 2.x with
>> the exeption of importing the 3.x print function. This version is the
>> most likely to compatible on different platforms and not need imported
>> packages IIRC. Basically used as a command line tool but could be
>> encapsulated in an Automator service, etc. It doesn't process minus/-1,
>> 1b, 1,000,000 promotional issues, etc. It assumes issues are named
>> identically prior to issue number.
>>
>> I had been working on versions to condense sequential missing issues,
>> copy results to the clipboard (on Macs) and allow an optional
>> parameters for last published issue, search for c2c/ctc status, print #
>> pages for non-c2c issues, etc.as well as play with Python 3.x and
>> various imported packages.
>>
>> I even invesrtigated APIs to the comicbook info sites to automatically
>> pull published issues info, but didn't get very far as I recall.
>>
>> If there's interest I'll dig it up and brush it off.
>
> I would be interested in giving it a whirl.
Are you on Mac? If so are you using APFS?
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