Python converter for aiml2rs

[lynxionxs]

Why did you not make the aiml2rs converter in python rather than perl ?
Perl is a dead language and hardly anyone uses it.
One would not have to download such a large dependancy just to convert aiml files to .rive and never use it for anything else.

I'm not going to download perl.
Is there an online aiml2rs converter ?

[kirsle]

The original implementation of RiveScript was written in Perl (from ~2003 to ~2012 give or take a few years), so it made sense for this one to also be in Perl and I hadn't rewritten it since the time I personally switched to Python and other languages as my preferred things to program in.

[lynxionxs]

Okay i see.
Will it be hard to convert that Perl script to python atleast?

[kirsle]

For a Python rewrite, if I use an XML parser (like the Perl version) it should be pretty straightforward to port the logic over (tho I'd wanna use argparse and make it a proper CLI tool instead of making people put things in specially named folders).

Using a Python implementation of AIML could potentially be even better for converting it over (if the AIML module is good at making the data programmatically available), but I haven't looked into any of those modules. There wasn't a Perl AIML implementation so the best I could do was an XML parser and some regular expressions. 😖

[lynxionxs]

Okay i will wait for the Python version of aiml2rs then. Thanks