A script to copy sound effects between Pico-8 Carts

sfxCopy.py

# Created by Chandler Lofland aka chand1012
# Licensed as CC 3.0 US
# This script is to copy sfx between carts in pico8
# Uses basic file commands in python and sys for arguments
# For Python 3.0+
# arguments go like so: python sfxcpy.py <inputFile> <outputFile>

import sys

args = sys.argv

lookup = "__sfx__"
inputfile = str(args[1])
inputfile_array = []
outputfile = str(args[2])
outputfile_array = []
final_array = []
final_str = ""
start_line_input = None
end_line_input = None
start_line_output = None
end_line_output = None
print("Starting with {} as input and {} as output.".format(inputfile,outputfile))
print("Finding sfx in input file.")
with open(inputfile) as sfxFile:
    for num, line in enumerate(sfxFile, 1):
        if lookup in line:
            start_line_input = num+1
            end_line_input = start_line_input+63

print("Finding sfx in output file.")
with open(outputfile) as sfxFile:
    for num, line in enumerate(sfxFile, 1):
        if lookup in line:
            start_line_output = num
            end_line_output = start_line_output+62

print("Copying lines from input file.")
with open(inputfile) as sfxFile:
    for num, line in enumerate(sfxFile, 1):
        if num>=start_line_input and num<=end_line_input:
            inputfile_array+=[str(line)]

print("Copying output file.")
with open(outputfile) as sfxFile:
    for num, line in enumerate(sfxFile, 1):
        outputfile_array+=[line]

print("Pasting lines to output list.")
count=0
for line in outputfile_array:
    lineIndex = outputfile_array.index(line)
    if lineIndex>=start_line_output and lineIndex<=end_line_output:
        final_array+=[inputfile_array[count]]
        count+=1
    else:
        final_array+=[line]
final_str = final_str.join(final_array)

print("Writing to output file.")
with open(outputfile, 'w') as sfxFile:
    sfxFile.write(final_str)

print("Done. Copied SFX from {} to {}".format(inputfile, outputfile))