Adding upstream version 1.8.0.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>

examples/accesslibplist.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+'Demo script for accessing fields in lib.plist'
+__url__ = 'https://github.com/silnrsi/pysilfont'
+__copyright__ = 'Copyright (c) 2017 SIL International (https://www.sil.org)'
+__license__ = 'Released under the MIT License (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)'
+__author__ = 'David Raymond'
+
+from silfont.core import execute
+
+argspec = [
+    ('ifont', {'help': 'Input font file'}, {'type': 'infont'}),
+    ('field', {'help': 'field to access'},{})]
+
+def doit(args):
+    font = args.ifont
+    field = args.field
+    lib = font.lib
+
+    if field in lib:
+        val = lib.getval(field)
+        print
+        print val
+        print
+        print "Field " + field + " is type " + lib[field][1].tag + " in xml"
+
+        print "The retrieved value is " + str(type(val)) + " in Python"
+    else:
+            print "Field not in lib.plist"
+
+    return
+
+
+def cmd(): execute("UFO", doit, argspec)
+if __name__ == "__main__": cmd()