Introduction of Configuration File

[AlTimofeyev]

• ADDED: Added PyYAML to the package requirements and the GitHub Actions Workflows.
• ADDED: Added default output locations for extracted color palettes.
  • Added DEFAULT_EXTRACTED_DIR, PASTEL_EXTRACTED_DIR and RAW_EXTRACTED_DIR constant variables into the settings.py file.
  • These directories will be located in the same folder as the configuration file for this tool.
• ADDED: Added more options and configuration file handling to the main.py file.
  • Added -r, --raw-dump option.
  • Added -g, --gen-config option.
  • Added -w, --where option.
• ADDED: Added ANSI conversion functions to the conversion_utils.py file.
  • Added rgb_to_ansi() and ansi_to_rgb() functions.
• CHANGED: Changed the naming convention for the color names in Extractor.py and extraction_utils.py files to be all lowercase.
  • Made all color names lowercase (e.g. Red to red, Dark Red to dark red, etc.).
• CHANGED: Changed extract_color_palettes() function name to extract_colors() in extraction_utils.py and Extractor.py files.
• CHANGED: Refactored the Extractor.py file and added some new functions.
  • Added convert_to_pastel() function to replace check_pastel_conversion() function.
  • Added organize_extracted_dictionary() function to replace construct_palette_dictionary() function.
  • Added set_color_format(), generate_palettes() and generate_default_palettes() functions.
  • Removed unnecessary parameters from the Extractor class constructor.
• CHANGED: Refactored the arg_messages.py file.
  • Corrected a misspelling of PyPalEx CLI call from pypalex to palex.
• CHANGED: Completely refactored the print_utils.py file to accommodate printing with palette templates.
  • Improved the readability of the code in this file.
  • Removed all the previous functions from this file.
• CHANGED: Completely refactored the file_utils.py file.
  • Made generate_config_file() function for generating a configuration file.
  • Made raw_dump() function for saving the raw extracted colors to a file.
  • Made save_palettes() function for saving organized palettes to files.
  • Removed all the previous functions from this file.

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