Hardlink the stylesheet instead of creating a copy

To tweak the CSS, one would need to navigate to the data dir, then to the HTML dir of the specific dictionary, and edit `dict-entry.css`. That flow is non-obvious. Moreover, it is confusing because there's a `dict-entry.css` in the workflow dir, and it could get annoying to see that editing it isn't reflecting the changes in dictionaries that have already been imported. In this change, while importing a new dict, instead of copying the css file from the workflow dir to the data dir, we create a hard link instead. That way, editing the css file in the workflow dir is enough. Also, it has the added benefit of reflecting the changes in all the imported dictionaries in one go.
mr-pennyworth · Feb 20, 2024 · 4f7f23b · 4f7f23b
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commit 4f7f23b
Showing 1 changed file with 7 additions and 6 deletions.
diff --git a/pyapp/BetterDict.py b/pyapp/BetterDict.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ def create_html_file(word, definitions, html_dir):
           <body> {definition} </body>
         </html>'''.encode('utf-8'))
 
-  
+
 def create_html_files(word_defs_map_items, html_dir):
   title = 'Creating HTML files...'
   run_parallely_with_progress_bar(
@@ -119,9 +119,10 @@ def create_html_files(word_defs_map_items, html_dir):
     title=title
   )
 
-  with open(f'{WORKFLOW_DIR}/dict-entry.css', 'rb') as src:
-    with open(f'{html_dir}/dict-entry.css', 'wb') as dst:
-      dst.write(src.read())
+  os.link(
+    src=f'{WORKFLOW_DIR}/dict-entry.css',
+    dst=f'{html_dir}/dict-entry.css',
+  )
 
 
 class AccumulatedIndexer:
@@ -143,7 +144,7 @@ def status():
       ipb.update(message='')
       time.sleep(2)
     ipb.finish()
-      
+
 
 
 def build_index(word_defs_map_items, dict_id, db_path, html_dir):
@@ -376,7 +377,7 @@ def create_index(dict_id, db_path):
     'quicklookurl',
   ])
   return index
-  
+
 
 def list_unimported_dicts(import_base_dir):
   alfreditems = {'items': []}