Python Script sdltbconv to convert SDLTB termbases to transversal (tab-delimited text fille)

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8


"""
This tool converts glossaries from the Trados Studio format (sdltb) to other formats with regex. 

Original script: https://gitlab.com/emansije/sdltbconv

"""


from meza import io
from pathlib import Path
import sys
import re


def process(filename):
    tsv_filename = filename[:-5] + "txt"
    tsv = open(tsv_filename, "w")
    try:
        for row in io.read_mdb(filename, table="mtConcepts"):
            source, destination = re.findall("<t>(.+?)<\/t>", row["text"])
            tsv.write(f"{source}\t{destination}\n")
    except ValueError:
        pass
    tsv.close()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
        if Path(filename).exists() and Path(filename).suffix == ".sdltb":
            process(filename)
        else:
            print(f"Invalid file: {filename}") 

Same script with xml.etree

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8


"""
This tool converts glossaries from the Trados Studio format (sdltb) to other formats with xml.etree.
"""


from meza import io
from pathlib import Path
import sys
import xml.etree.ElementTree as et


def process(filename):
    tsv_filename = filename[:-5] + "txt"
    tsv = open(tsv_filename, "w")
    try:
        for row in io.read_mdb(filename, table="mtConcepts"):
            root = et.fromstring(row["text"])
            source, destination = [term.text for term in root.findall(".//t")]
            tsv.write(f"{source}\t{destination}\n")
    except RuntimeError:
        pass
    tsv.close()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
        if Path(filename).exists() and Path(filename).suffix == ".sdltb":
            process(filename)
        else:
            print(f"Invalid file: {filename}")