Tidy PyList creation code. Add test driver.

src/Mod/Test/testmakeWireString.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# tester for Part.makeWireString
+
+import FreeCAD
+import Part
+import PartDesign
+
+print "testWire started"
+
+# test strings 
+# if string contains funky characters, it has to be declared as Unicode or it 
+# turns into the default encoding (usually utf8).  FT2 doesn't do utf8.
+#String = 'Wide WMA_'                                 # wide glyphs for tracking
+#String = 'Big'
+#String = u'ecAnO'                                    # UCS-2 w/ only ASCII   
+#String = u'ucs2uéçÄñØ'                               # UCS-2   
+#String = 'utf8!uéçÄñØ'                               # UTF-8   
+#String = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'
+#String = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
+#String = 'Big Daddy'                                 # white space 
+#String = 'AVWAIXA.V'                                 # kerning 
+String = 'FreeCAD'                                    # ASCII  
+
+#FontPath = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/' 
+#FontName = 'Times_New_Roman_Italic.ttf'                  
+FontPath = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/'
+#FontName = 'Arial.ttf'                                   
+FontName = 'NOTArial.ttf'                             # font file not found error
+#FontPath = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/' 
+#FontName = 'ariali.ttf'                              #symlink to ttf
+#FontPath = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/' 
+#FontName = 'Peterbuilt.ttf'                          # overlapping script font
+#FontPath = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/' 
+#FontName = 'dyspepsia.ttf'                           # overlapping script font  # :)
+
+Height  = 2000                                        # out string height FCunits
+Track = 0                                             # intercharacter spacing
+ 
+print "testWire.py input String contains ", len(String), " characters."
+  
+s = Part.makeWireString(String,FontPath,FontName,Height,Track)                
+
+print "returned from makeWireString"
+print "testWire.py output contains ", len(s), " WireChars."
+
+for char in s:
+    for contour in char:
+        Part.show(contour)
+        
+print "testWire ended."