added workaround for systems with double hyphens in the name (Thanks Light)

edsmAround.py

@@ -7,15 +7,16 @@ from math import floor
 #IMPORTANT BITS
 
 ###This is the name of the sector you want to search into (Do not use caps!)
-sectorName = "Cleeque"
+sectorName = "Phleedgaa"
 
 
 ### "weights" to query, beware of big results when searching for lighter systems in more dense area
-weightsToQuery = ["h","g","f"]
+weightsToQuery = ["a","b","c","d","e"]
 
 
 ### postFix List, modify as needed
-postFixList =["AA-A","BA-A","CL-Y","DL-Y","EG-Y","FG-Y","YE-A","ZE-A"]
+#postFixList =["AA-A","BA-A","CL-Y","DL-Y","EG-Y","FG-Y","YE-A","ZE-A"]
+postFixList =["UJ-Q"]
 
 
 
@@ -28,20 +29,28 @@ def apiCall(systemName):
 
 # takes a sector name, a postfix and a weight, returns list of known systems in EDSM matching that
 def fetchEdsmSystems(sectorName, postFix, weight):
+    hasMultipleHyphens = False
     systemList = []
     pattern = re.compile(f".*{postFix} {weight}.*")
     for system in json.loads(apiCall(sectorName +" "+postFix).content):
         if pattern.match(system['name']):
             systemList.append(system['name'])
-    return systemList
+        hasMultipleHyphens = system['name'].count("-") > 1 # if at least one of those has multiple hyphens, we consider all of them do
+    return systemList, hasMultipleHyphens
 
 #given a list of systems (assumed to be all the same weight and postfix) returns the maximum value of the integer value in the system name for that list
 def maxSystemValue(systemList):
     currentMax = 0
-    pattern = re.compile(f".*[A-Z][A-Z]-[A-Z] [A-Za-z]([0-9]+)")
+    patternWithoutHyphen = re.compile(f".*[A-Z][A-Z]-[A-Z] [A-Za-z]([0-9]+)")
+    patternWithHyphen = re.compile(f".*[A-Z][A-Z]-[A-Z] [A-Za-z][0-9]*-([0-9]+)")
     for system in systemList:
         val = 0
-        match = pattern.match(system)
+
+        if system.count("-") > 1:
+            match = patternWithHyphen.match(system)
+        else:
+            match = patternWithoutHyphen.match(system)
+
         val = int(match.group(1))
         if val > currentMax:
             currentMax = val
@@ -54,19 +63,27 @@ sysWeightDict = {}
 #dict of dict of systems maximum value by postfix, keyed by weight ( dict["AA-A"]["g"] gives back the maximum recorded value for X where X is the integer in a system name : AA-A GX)
 sysMaxDict = {}
 
+postFixWithMultipleHyphens = {} # deals with system names like "Sector AA-A e5-8"
+
 #dict of dict of all the systems in a sector keyed by postfix, keyed by weight, used later for substracting EDSM values from ALL systems
 sysCandidates = {}
 
+
+base = ""
+reference = ""
+
+
 #for each weight class, we initialize our dicts with our postfix list
 for weight in weightsToQuery:
     sysWeightDict[weight] = {}
     sysMaxDict[weight] = {}
     sysCandidates[weight] = {}
+    postFixWithMultipleHyphens[weight] = {}
 
     #then we populate our dicts with the provided postfix
 
     for postfix in postFixList:
-        sysWeightDict[weight][postfix] = fetchEdsmSystems(sectorName, postfix, weight) # this is reversed from IG "AA-A G"
+        sysWeightDict[weight][postfix], postFixWithMultipleHyphens[weight][postfix] = fetchEdsmSystems(sectorName, postfix, weight) # this is reversed from IG "AA-A G"
         sysMaxDict[weight][postfix] = maxSystemValue(sysWeightDict[weight][postfix])
 
         #now we generate the inverse of the known system list
@@ -74,8 +91,17 @@ for weight in weightsToQuery:
         # for all systems indexes to the max known index
         sysCandidates[weight][postfix] = []
 
+        if len(sysWeightDict[weight][postfix]) > 0:
+
+            if postFixWithMultipleHyphens[weight][postfix]: #if we have multiple hyphens we take the first system to see what's in front of the hyphen
+                reference = sysWeightDict[weight][postfix][0]
+                base = reference[:reference.rfind("-")+1]
+                print(f"Warning, sector {sectorName} {postfix} has multiple hyphens, predictions may be wrong!")
+            else:
+                base =f"{sectorName} {postfix} {weight}"
+
             for i in range(sysMaxDict[weight][postfix]):
-            candidate = f"{sectorName} {postfix} {weight}{i}"
+                candidate = f"{base}{i}"
                 if candidate not in sysWeightDict[weight][postfix]:
                     sysCandidates[weight][postfix].append(candidate)