From 547335b843b32fb9a5c56d89b83bb73b63ea666e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:01:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] read crossword file name from args list

---
 curses-crossword.py | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/curses-crossword.py b/curses-crossword.py
index 06d944e..92f9b92 100644
--- a/curses-crossword.py
+++ b/curses-crossword.py
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ import curses
 import curses.ascii
 import locale
 import codecs
+import getopt
+import os
+import sys
 
 locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
 code = locale.getpreferredencoding()
@@ -27,7 +30,26 @@ except:
     for number in range(0,10):
         superscript_numbers[str(number)] = str(number)
 
-crossworddata = codecs.open("crossword.output", "r", "utf-8").read()
+filename = None
+
+(options, args) = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "f:", "file=")
+
+for option in options:
+    if option[0] == "-f" or option[0] == "--file":
+        filename = option[1]
+
+if not filename and len(args) > 0:
+    filename = args[0]
+
+if not filename:
+    sys.stderr.write("No crossword file specified, exiting.\n")
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+if os.path.exists(filename) and os.path.isfile(filename):
+    crossworddata = codecs.open(filename, "r", "utf-8").read()
+else:
+    sys.stderr.write("Couldn't open file %s\n" %(filename))
+    sys.exit(0)
 
 def parsecrossword(crossworddata):
     ingrid = False
-- 
2.39.5