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The scripts are written in Python. Most of them rely on the debug file that ca2 leaves after execution. At the beginning of the script, after the imports there is always a "configuration" section (delimited by comments) which contains all the (documented) constant variables that must be set appropriately to make the script do exactly what you want.
Debug util/parser.py - debug file parsing
As you can imagine, the parsing of the debug file is strongly dependent on its format. This means that if you change the name of the attributes written in the file for example, the scripts might not work as expected. The parsing does not depend on the order of the attributes so it is safe to change it.
All the script rely on the class DebugData in "scripts/util/parser.py". This design makes it easy to make adjustments in case the file format changes. However, if you modify the internal data structure of DebugData (e.g. change the name of one of its member variables) you will have to modify the scripts that access to that data.
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