Just for the record: On 2011-03-23, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2011-03-23, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> Also sprach Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: >>>> Yes, I still have this message marked in my inbox. But you didn't yet >>>> propose a working python code, did you?
>>>> OTOH JMarc's idea of using a test file strikes me not too bad. >>> In my mind this is the same idea. Lime what is done in checkLatex(). >> I thought that Günter wanted to parse fontspec.sty for the date. > I asked at comp.text.tex for a way to parse a LaTeX package for the > date without loading it -- it turned out to be far more complicated > than I expected and even the most advanced solutions by Heiko > Oberdieck are not working in any valid case. There is now a brand-new "filemod" package at CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/pkg/filemod) which should be able to solve the task. Instead of parsing the file, it looks at its modification date which should suffice in many cases. > This is why I considered using kpsewhich for locating fontspec.sty and > parsing it with Python. > (A Python function calling kpsewhich can be found in the small file > kpathsea.py from the "pybtex" project. On my Debian machine it's > /usr/share/pyshared/pybtex/kpathsea.py) Following the "filemod" example, one could use the file's modification date instead of parsing. However, the alternative way using a minimal *.tex file as probe seems simpler. Günter
