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Also add a README.md to python3-flightgear explaining how to use the PYTHONPATH environment variable or a .pth file in order to run the Python scripts in FGMeta, and pointing to the top-level directories 'catalog' and 'i18n'.
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Python code for FlightGear “meta” work
The flightgear directory contains FlightGear-specific Python 3 modules.
These modules are mostly of interest to FlightGear developers.
Telling your Python interpreter how to access the modules
In order to run most of the Python scripts in FGMeta, your Python 3
installation must have the /path/to/fgmeta/python3-flightgear directory in
its sys.path. One way to do this is to use something like the following in
your shell setup:
export PYTHONPATH="/path/to/fgmeta/python3-flightgear"
This example uses Bourne-style syntax; adjust for your particular shell. Several directories may be added this way using a colon separator on Unix, and presumably a semicolon on Windows.
An alternative to setting PYTHONPATH is to add .pth files in special
directories of your Python installation(s). For instance, you can create a
file, say, FlightGear-FGMeta.pth, containing a single line (with no space at
the beginning):
/path/to/fgmeta/python3-flightgear
If you want the modules present in /path/to/fgmeta/python3-flightgear to be
accessible to a particular Python interpreter (say, a Python 3.8), simply put
the .pth file in /path/to/python-install-dir/lib/python3.8/site-packages/.
This can even be a virtual environment if you want. For the system Python
interpreters on Debian, you can put the .pth file in, e.g,
/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/. Note that you may add more lines to
a .pth file in case you want to add other paths to the Python interpreter's
sys.path.
The scripts
Once you've done the above setup, the Python 3 scripts in FGMeta should run fine. This concerns in particular scripts located in the following top-level directories of FGMeta:
catalog Generation of aircraft catalogs
i18n Management of translations in FlightGear (i18n stands for
“internationalization”)