Quick Way to Find Unused CharIDs?

[Masternachos]

I'm wondering if someone has developed a program or figured out a trick to quickly find what Character ID numbers aren't being used in a mod. Because right now the only way I can think of is to manually type each possible number into the folder search to see if something comes up.

...I now realize that "unused CharIDs" could potentially be infinite (I know CharIDs of more than 10 digits can cause problems, but they can still exist, right?), so it would be best to have a way to limit the search (say, Only look for unused CharIDs between X and Y).

 

[faiuwle]

Here is a Python script I wrote to find the highest character ID in use:

import sys
import os
import string

highest_char_id = 0

for filename in os.listdir(sys.argv[1]):
    with open(os.path.join(sys.argv[1], filename)) as file:
        for line in file:
            char_id = ''
            for char in line:
                if char in string.digits:
                    char_id += char
                else:
                    break
            if len(char_id) == 0:
                continue
            if int(char_id) > highest_char_id:
                highest_char_id = int(char_id)
                
print('Highest character ID:', highest_char_id)

Run it as <script>.py <path to history/characters/ folder>.

 

[Keizer Harm]

For reference; it's safe to use character ids starting from 276 000, dynasty ids between 13 500 and 999 999 (for some reason it skips over almost a million ids there), and after 1 071 000.

 

[Masternachos]

Here is a Python script I wrote to find the highest character ID in use:

import sys
import os
import string

highest_char_id = 0

for filename in os.listdir(sys.argv[1]):
    with open(os.path.join(sys.argv[1], filename)) as file:
        for line in file:
            char_id = ''
            for char in line:
                if char in string.digits:
                    char_id += char
                else:
                    break
            if len(char_id) == 0:
                continue
            if int(char_id) > highest_char_id:
                highest_char_id = int(char_id)
               
print('Highest character ID:', highest_char_id)

Run it as <script>.py <path to history/characters/ folder>.

Not quite what I was looking for; but basically confirms my suspicion that what I AM looking for is impossible, so this is still very useful.
Thank you!

 

[Keizer Harm]

Not quite what I was looking for; but basically confirms my suspicion that what I AM looking for is impossible, so this is still very useful.
Thank you!

Oh, it would not be impossible to get a list of every single unused character/dynasty ID at all; just a bit inconvenient. It makes more sense to define the bounds of the ranges of used/unused ids, e.g. "Every ID over 500 is free", rather than listing all of them, e.g. "Free IDs: 500, 501, 502, 503..." because the first method is easier to write down and gives the exact same information.