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    • Claudia FrankC
      Claudia Frank @Avianographer
      last edited by

      Hello Dustin,

      no, don’t have used it yet but could it be that it is strict about additional eols?
      As i converted ip and mask to int, any eol char has been stripped silently.
      Maybe give it a try with

      ipRange.append(IPNetwork(line_content.strip())) 
      

      Which netaddr version do you use?

      Cheers
      Claudia

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      • Claudia FrankC
        Claudia Frank
        last edited by

        Hello Dustin,

        I’ve downloaded netaddr (0.7.18) and it isn’t strict about the eol.
        But it is strict about getting nothing ;-)
        I assume you have an empty line, one reason why I used the simple check in my create_ip_list function ;-)

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • AvianographerA
          Avianographer
          last edited by

          Alright, here is the final script that does everything I need it to.

          from netaddr import *										# import everything from the netaddr module
          
          ipList = [] 												# initialize the array to store the IPNetwork objects
          
          def createIpList(lineContents, lineNumber, totalLines): 	# function used to fill ipList with each line
              if lineContents.find('/') > -1:                         # verify that it is not a blank line by checking for the presence of the "/" in a CIDR range
          		ipList.append(IPNetwork(lineContents))				# append to ipList
          
          editor.forEachLine(createIpList)							# main function starts here
          
          result = cidr_merge(ipList)									# use netaddr cidr_merge to merge CIDR ranges. It auto sorts and de-duplicates.
          
          editor.beginUndoAction()									# set an undo point, in case there is a need to undo all
          editor.clearAll()											# clear editor content
          
          for ip in result:											# iterating over ipList previously saved and
          	editor.appendText(ip)									# write merged CIDR ranges to the editor
          editor.appendText("\n")									# add a newline since the IPNetwork object doesn't include one
          
          editor.endUndoAction()										# inform editor about action end
          

          Thanks to everyone, especially Claudia, I now have something that goes beyond my original intentions and fully automates my task. All I have to do is copy/paste/run. So happy!

          Also, it turns out cidr_merge sorts and de-duplicates, as well, so I only needed that one function.

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          • Claudia FrankC
            Claudia Frank @Avianographer
            last edited by

            Hello Dustin,

            nice to see that you did it and thank you for pointing me to the netaddr module.
            I have played a little with it and I can already see two dns tasks which can take usage
            of it.

            Cheers
            Claudia

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            • SuncatcherS
              Suncatcher
              last edited by Suncatcher

              I would greatly appreciate this feature too, and preferably out-of-the box, i.e. without any plugins. Or it’ll be good to built-in this functionality into a plugin.
              I noticed that TextFX plugin is dying, so is there any other perspective plugin that can implement this?
              guy038, it’s a cool method that was proposed by you, and it works out-of-the-box, which is an advantage over Pythonscript! Thanks for your effort! Brilliant!

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              • SuncatcherS
                Suncatcher
                last edited by

                BTW, I noticed that last version of Pythonscript was published in 2014, and it worries me a lot. I wasn’t able to install it from plugin manager (it threw unknown exception) and had to do it manually.
                So with the every new version of NPP compatibility issues will be bigger and bigger, and we should search for a replacement anyway.

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                • Scott SumnerS
                  Scott Sumner @Suncatcher
                  last edited by

                  @Suncatcher

                  I don’t know that you should be “worried, a lot” about the Pythonscript plugin being last published in 2014. Perhaps that just means it is very stable and has few bugs in need of fixing. :-)

                  What does “search for a replacement” mean??

                  @Dave-Brotherstone is the author of the Pythonscript plugin, as well as the PluginManager plugin. He has recently been working a lot on updating the PluginManager and finding a new good site for hosting the plugins it manages. I think this work also includes heading toward a build of a 64-bit version…so he is busy, but I’m guessing that when that work is complete he will also strive to achieve a 64-bit build of Pythonscript, as well. So I think it is far from dead, even though it hasn’t been updated since 2014. Just guesses, but maybe educated guesses?

                  I can think of a few pieces of software that I use that haven’t had new releases since 2007-2009, so to me 2014 is relatively recent!

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                  • SuncatcherS
                    Suncatcher @Scott Sumner
                    last edited by

                    @Scott-Sumner said:

                    Perhaps that just means it is very stable and has few bugs in need of fixing. :-)

                    Bold claim!)
                    For me it often means that project is simply abandoned. Abandoned and not maintained for a long time, which means that:

                    • the amount of bugs increased exponentially since then
                    • new features haven’t been implemented for a long time too, whereas technologies are moving forward.
                    • not to mention that in most cases those projects have poor community where it’s impossible to resolve any issue.

                    But this is a common case and maybe Pythonscipt is another thing.

                    P.S. Considering that author of Plugin Manager and author of Pythonscript is a same person, and he’s been working a lot on updating the PluginManager, it is especially strange to face issues while installing PS from Manager. I was unable to do it, and not only I.

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                    • Scott SumnerS
                      Scott Sumner @Suncatcher
                      last edited by

                      @Suncatcher

                      It IS rather strange that the Pythonscript plugin has trouble installing via PluginManager, given a common author, I’ll grant you that.

                      I don’t know the full explanation of the Pythonscript + PluginManager problems, but I haven’t let that discourage me. As you have discovered, installing Pythonscript another way works. I have been using Pythonscript deeply since my very first day of using Notepad++, and I can say I’ve found bugs, but not many. Workarounds are the mainstay of Notepad++ (power) users. Bugs exist in software. Features are lacking. These are just facts.

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                      • SuncatcherS
                        Suncatcher @Avianographer
                        last edited by

                        @Dustin-Cook BTw, the script from Dustin doesn’t work for me (as well as the first ones), it just cleans the screen with the test data. Maybe I’m doing smth wrong?

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                        • Scott SumnerS
                          Scott Sumner @Scott Sumner
                          last edited by

                          @Scott-Sumner said:

                          @Dave-Brotherstone is the author of the Pythonscript plugin, as well as the PluginManager plugin

                          It appears Dave may be @bruderstein on this forum…maybe if he sees this he could comment on the status of Pythonscript…I’m curious about the state of even the 32-bit version as I just got bit again by the notepad.getFiles() bug. :(

                          That bug is detailed here: https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/issues/22

                          I’d fix the bug in a local build as a temporary measure, but thus far I have been unable to build Pythonscript from source (okay, I haven’t worked extensively on getting it to build, but Notepad++ is an easy one to build, and I was hoping for the same from Pythonscript).

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                          • Claudia FrankC
                            Claudia Frank @Scott Sumner
                            last edited by

                            @Scott-Sumner

                            Scott, what is the error you get? In the past I compiled it a couple of times
                            and can’t remember that there was some trouble doing it.

                            Cheers
                            Claudia

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                            • Scott SumnerS
                              Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
                              last edited by

                              @Claudia-Frank

                              Since we’re already way off topic, can we take a discussion of building Pythonscript offline to email? If an offline discussion turns up something really interesting, I can post back here (under a new topic) to share with the Community.

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                              • Claudia FrankC
                                Claudia Frank @Scott Sumner
                                last edited by

                                @Scott-Sumner

                                sure, @guy038 as far as I remember you already in contact with Scott,
                                would you be so kind and forward my email to him?

                                Thanks
                                Claudia

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                                • guy038G
                                  guy038
                                  last edited by guy038

                                  Hello Claudia,

                                  No problem : I’ve just sent your e-mail address to Scott !

                                  Good Python discussions, with Scott ;-)

                                  Cheers,

                                  guy038

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                                  • Claudia FrankC
                                    Claudia Frank @guy038
                                    last edited by

                                    @guy038 - Thank you very much.

                                    Cheers
                                    Claudia

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