User:Phiarc/US missiles/doc

Usage

missiles = {}
for line in open("inp.txt", encoding="utf-8").readlines():
    if not line.startswith('*'):
        continue
    linktext, _, missile = line.strip().lstrip('*').strip('[] ').partition('|')
    missile = missile or linktext
    mission = 'I' if missile.startswith('XLIM') else missile[1]
    missiles.setdefault(mission, []).append((linktext, missile))


def number(missile):
    return int(missile.partition('-')[2].strip('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/'))

def sortkey(linktext_missile):
    typedes, _, number = linktext_missile[1].partition('-')
    number = int(number.strip('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/'))
    return number  # sort by number
    return typedes, number  # group by type (e.g. AIM) then sort by number

for bunch in missiles.values():
    bunch.sort(key=sortkey)

missionkey = dict(
    D='Decoy',
    E='Special electronic',
    G='Ground attack',
    I='Air intercept',
    Q='Drone',
    S='Anti-satellite',
    T='Training',
    U='Anti-submarine',
    W='Weather observation',
)

for n, (mission, missiles) in enumerate(sorted(missiles.items())):
    n += 1
    print(f'|group{n} = {missionkey[mission]}')
    print(f'|list{n} =')
    lastnum = 0
    lastlink = ''
    for linktext, missile in missiles:
        num = number(missile)
        star = '* ' if num != lastnum else '**'
        if linktext == missile:
            print(f'{star}[[{missile}]]')
        else:
            print(f'{star}[[{linktext}|{missile}]]')
        lastnum = num
    print()