Re: [OT] driver's license exam app?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:24 AM, Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I've got here a desktop app that quizzes the user with questions from
> מבחן התיאוריה (the one people take when they learn driving).  It's
> basically a self-test/study app, using the questionset from the
> Ministry's web site.  (They publish questionsets in six languages,
> I only tried the Hebrew set.)
>
> By "app" I mean a python script that prints questions to stdout, reads
> answers from stdin, and displays images by invoking display(1) [a
> minimal image viewer from imagemagick].  It doesn't have a GUI (beyond
> the image displayer) since my target audience didn't need one.
>
> I can't release it as-is because $LEGAL_REASONS, but I could clean it up
> to make it releaseable.  Before I spend too much time on that, is that
> something anybody would be interested in?
>
> [feel free to reply offlist]
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel
>
> P.S. It wasn't fun to get Hebrew to print correctly on all terminals:
> there are differently-behaving terminals that use the same value of
> $TERM (undermining terminfo-based solutions).  I ended up using
> $WINDOWID to get the terminal emulator's argv[0], and hardcoding
> exceptions based on that.  That's so 1990...
>
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