From 830777a280071e039c01b2f113c27aacb001605a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mattmcw <hi@mmcwilliams.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:29:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add a python utility for removing <rect> tags from svg files
 generated by Processing.

---
 processingsvg.py | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 processingsvg.py

diff --git a/processingsvg.py b/processingsvg.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6f42f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/processingsvg.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Find a <rect> bounding box inserted by Processing
+# and remove it. Happens inconsistently.
+
+import sys
+
+argIndex = len(sys.argv) - 1
+filePath = str(sys.argv[argIndex])
+
+evalLine = ''
+rest = ''
+i = 0
+
+with open(filePath) as f :
+	lines = f.readlines()
+	for line in lines :
+		if i < 20 :
+			evalLine += line.replace('\r', '').replace('\n', '')
+		else :
+			rest += line
+		i += 1
+	f.close()
+
+evalLine = evalLine.replace('>', '>\n')
+lines = evalLine.split('\n')
+first = True
+removed = ''
+clean = ''
+
+for line in lines:
+	if '<rect' in line and first:
+		removed += line
+		first = False
+	else :
+		clean += line + '\n'
+
+if len(removed) > 0 :
+	overwrite = open(filePath, 'w')
+	overwrite.write(clean + rest)
+	overwrite.close()
+	print(f'File: {filePath}')
+	print(f'Removed: {removed}')
+else :
+	print(f'Nothing found to remove in {filePath}')
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