Serpent 2.1.0

[Kavawuvi 7,026]

Serpent is a tool that provides an alternative scripting syntax for users to use. The script can be then be converted into a .HSC script and put into a map.

 

Here is a sample script:

global string hello_world = "hello world"

startup start
    developer_mode = 127
    if (4 + 1) > 4
        print(hello_world)
        print("5 is greater than 4!")
    elseif 5 / 0
        print("wait, what?")
    end
end

This script is then converted into HSC's Lisp format. To keep size down, the amount of whitespace characters are kept to a minimum. This produces an unreadable blob of data like this:

(global string hello_world "hello world")(script startup start (set developer_mode 127)(if (> (+ 4 1)4)(begin (print hello_world)(print "5 is greater than 4!"))(if (/ 5 0)(print "wait, what?"))))

Documentation

Here is a link to the readme:

https://github.com/Kavawuvi/serpent/blob/2.1.0/README.md

 

Requirements

Python 3.7 (or newer)

Windows and macOS users can get it from the Python website. Linux users likely already have it (try running python3), but if not, you can probably get it from your package manager.

 

Halo Editing Kit

To put a script into a map, you will need Sapien and tool.exe.

I also recommend getting Mo's Editing Kit. It's probably not required, but Guerilla sucks, so it might as well be.

Download

Serpent (2.1.0): serpent-2.1.0.zip

Serpent (2.1.0 - GitHub): https://github.com/Kavawuvi/serpent/tree/2.1.0

Serpent (Unstable - GitHub): https://github.com/Kavawuvi/serpent

 

[EmmanuelCD 57]

It looks a lot more clean, I will definitely use it in the future for more proyects

[Kavawuvi 7,026]

I'm currently working on allowing users to convert HSC scripts to serpent scripts. Note that comments do not get preserved here.

 

 

UPDATE: I've just released 2.1.0. Here is a link to the changelog: https://github.com/Kavawuvi/serpent/blob/2.1.0/CHANGELOG.md

 

[2.1.0]

Added

• Added --pretty for converting to Halo Script if a human-readable output is desired

Changed

• --strip is now on by default for if converting to Halo Script

 

[2.0.0]

Added

• HSC scripts can now be parsed
• HSC scripts can now be converted into serpent scripts (parse_hsc_script() and compile_serpent_script())
• Added --strip to make stripping of unnecessary characters optional

Changed

• Changed the behavior of removing the quotation marks from strings so that only alphanumeric strings (with or without underscores) have their quotation marks removed rather than strings without spaces.
• Reorganized the file structure. All functions for converting scripts are now stored in a submodule.
• compile() is changed to compile_hsc_script()
• parse() is changed to parse_serpent_script()
• Python's argparse is used for parsing arguments now

Fixed

• Empty strings are now properly handled