improved write to file function, in emit.py (and fixed latin-1)

src/vocola2/exec/vcl2py/emit.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import re
 from vocola2.exec.vcl2py.ast import *
-from natlinkcore.readwritefile import ReadWriteFile
 
 log_error = None   # temporary kludge
 
@@ -39,18 +38,6 @@ def emit_output(out_file, statements):
     global Should_emit_dictation_support, OUT
     # OUT is now a list, which is written in one stroke 
     OUT = []
-    OUT = open(out_file, "w", encoding='latin-1')
-    #     encoding = 'utf-8'
-    #     print(f'opening vocola output file: {out_file}')
-    #     OUT = open(out_file, "w")
-    # except: UnicodeEncodeError:
-    #     rwfile = readwritefile.ReadWriteFile()
-    #     rwfile.writeAnything(out_file, output_string)
-    # 
-    # except OSError as e:
-    #     log_error("Unable to open output file '" + out_file + \
-    #               "' for writing: " + str(e))
-    #     return
     emit_file_header()
     if Should_emit_dictation_support: emit_dictation_grammar()
     for statement in statements:
@@ -626,10 +613,9 @@ def menu_has_actions(menu):
 def emit_write_to_file(out_file):
     """write list OUT to out_file
     """
-    rwfile = ReadWriteFile()  # encodings= ['ascii', 'cp1252',  'latin-1'])
     out_string = ''.join(OUT)
-    # print(f'emit_write_to_file: {out_file}')
-    rwfile.writeAnything(out_file, out_string)
+    with open(out_file, 'w', encoding='latin-1') as fp:
+        fp.write(out_string)
 
 def menu_is_range(menu):  # verified menu => can contain only 1 range as a 1st term
     commands = menu["COMMANDS"]

src/vocola2/extensions/vocola_ext_keys.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 # Vocola procedure: Keys.SendInput
 def send_input(specification):
-    print(f'vocola send_input: {specification}')
+    # print(f'vocola send_input: {specification}')
     SendInput.send_input(
         ExtendedSendDragonKeys.senddragonkeys_to_events(specification))