First version of a simple script that adds the transifex authors

to the list of launchpad authors in the translator-credits string.
The latter is used to display the appropriate in-game credits.

tools/update_po_authors.py

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+#!/bin/env python
+
+# A simple script that adds all authors from transifex, which are
+# listed in comments at the beginning of the file, to the 
+# 'translator-credits' translations - where launchpad added them
+# and which are shown in stk.
+import re
+import sys
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    if len(sys.argv)!=2:
+        print "Usage: getpo_authors.py PATH_TO_PO_FILE"
+        sys.exit(-1)
+
+    f = open(sys.argv[1], "r")
+    if not f:
+        print "Can not find", sys.argv[1]
+        exit
+    lines = f.readlines()
+
+    f.close()
+
+    authors = []
+    found   = 0
+
+    # Find all authors with a simple finite state machine:
+    contributions = -1
+    line_count    =  0
+    for i in lines:
+        line = i[:-1]   # remove \n
+        if line=="# Translators:":
+            found = 1
+        elif found and line[:2]=="# ":
+            authors.append(line[2:])
+        elif line[:5]=="msgid":
+            found = 0
+        elif line[:31]== "msgstr \"Launchpad Contributions":
+            contributions = line_count
+        line_count = line_count + 1
+
+
+    # Delete all email addresses - not sure if the authors
+    # would want them to be published
+    email=re.compile(" *<.*@.*\..*> *")   # one @ and one dot at least
+    for i in range(len(authors)):
+        g = email.search(authors[i])
+        if g:
+            authors[i] = authors[i][:g.start()]+authors[i][g.end():]
+
+    # Now append the new authors to the Launchpad string
+    if contributions==-1:
+        print "Can not find old Launchpad Contributions string."
+        sys.exit(-1)
+    else:
+        # Remove trailing "
+        s=reduce(lambda x,y: x+"\\n  "+y, authors)
+        lines[contributions] = lines[contributions][:-2]+"\\n  "+s+\
+                               lines[contributions][-2:]
+
+    f = open(sys.argv[1], "w")
+    for i in lines:
+        f.write(i)
+    f.close()
+