If you need to parse Escoria scripts for dialog but aren't far enough in your game to have all the scripts loaded for lockit.gd

deal_dialog.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

from collections import namedtuple

import itertools
import operator
import re
import sys

DialogSpec = namedtuple('DialogSpec', ('fname', 'id', 'dialog', 'comment'))


def get_dialogs(files):
    dialogs = {}
    ok = True

    seen_dialog = {}

    for fname in files:
        with open(fname, 'r') as f:
            lines = [l.strip() for l in f.readlines()]
            lines = [l for l in lines if l.startswith('say')]

            if lines:
                for line in lines:
                    comment = None
                    dialog = None
                    char = None
                    id_ = None

                    # Basic validation
                    if ':"' not in line:
                        print('Broken line in {}'.format(fname))
                        print('\t{}'.format(line))
                        ok = False

                    # Fuck the pain away
                    line = re.sub('\[.+\]', '', line).strip()

                    # Parse comments
                    if '#' in line:
                        line, comment = line.rsplit('#', 1)
                        comment = comment.strip()

                    # Know about the id separator
                    line, dialog = line.rsplit(':', 1)

                    # Smaller tokens
                    split_line = line.split()
                    assert(len(split_line) == 3)
                    assert(split_line[0] == 'say')
                    char = split_line[1]
                    id_ = split_line[2]

                    # Sanity check
                    if id_ in seen_dialog:
                        if seen_dialog[id_] != dialog:
                            print('Duplicate id "{}" for different dialog in file {}:\n\t{} <> {}'
                                  ''.format(id_, fname, seen_dialog[id_], dialog))
                            ok = False
                    else:
                        seen_dialog[id_] = dialog

                    dialog_spec = DialogSpec(fname, id_, dialog, comment)

                    dialogs.setdefault(char, []).append(dialog_spec)

    return dialogs, ok


def main(args):
    files = args
    dialogs, ok = get_dialogs(files)
    if ok:
        for char in dialogs:
            print('Dealing with {}'.format(char))
            char_out_fname = '{}.txt'.format(char)
            sorted_fnames = sorted(dialogs[char], key=operator.attrgetter('fname'))
            fname_specs = itertools.groupby(sorted_fnames, operator.attrgetter('fname'))
            output = ""
            for fname, specs in fname_specs:
                specs = tuple(specs)

                # Click-clack-pow, can't care about the minutiæ of this shit
                output = "{}\n{}\n{}\n\n".format(output, fname, len(fname) * '=')
                for spec in specs:
                    output = """{}\
{}
{}

{}
""".format(output, spec.id, len(spec.id) * '-', spec.dialog)
                    if spec.comment:
                        output = '{}({})'.format(output, spec.comment)
                    output = '{}\n\n'.format(output)

            with open(char_out_fname, 'w') as f:
                f.write(output)

    return 0 if ok else 1


if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))