Scipt "home made" take very long time to end. Scribus 1.6.1 Windows 10

[Ribus]

Hello,

I use Scribus for many years now. I use to work on text with different languages in it, cyrillique and other. Sometime the russian words are all together in a single one 55 letters word. I want allso that iltalic words gose through the process.

To be safe with it I use a macro WORD to separate all words with ¤ in source WORD file Windows and replace a lot off characters like space in unsecable space and so on. Then I export Word.doc in html through LibreOffice.

Then import in a text frame in Scribus.
Then cleaning the frame with a script. With 1 or 2 pages it works, but with a 10 pages it is possible that script never stop.
Is it a problem between Scribus and Python version.

Thanks, for Help.
Richard

[BN_Dev]

Does it just stop abruptly on 10 pages, or do you notice an exponential slow-down the more pages you run the script on?  What happens on 3 pages?  Then 4?

[Ribus]

No stop, you can wait 15 minutes or more with no end (nobody can wait so long, only for Windows start).

Of course it depends of the number of pages ... but today it works well.
10.000 characters and spaces = 10 s; 40.000 = 50 s, 190.000 = 5 mn.
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I found a "solution", I made a copy of the script with the 2 first loops only :

   # Espace = u'\u0020',
   # ¤ = u'\u00A4'

replacements = (
   ('\u00A4','\u0020'),                     # ¤ en espace
   ('\u0020\u0020','\u0020'),            # deux espaces en un

It works in some seconds 5 to 25s.
Usually the original article in a frame is 30 000 characters and I have pushed a "space ¤ space" in place of space in html source (problem with russian words), then 40.000 characters.


Then I start the original script with allready the two first lines and the others. It works in some times.