HackYourFuture - change absolute links within the repository to relative links

relLinks.py

from __future__ import print_function
import os, re, shutil

def removeAbsolutePath(rawHaystack,file,overwrite=False):
	filePathParts = file.split(".")
	newFile = "".join(filePathParts[0:-1])+"_new."+filePathParts[-1]

	# run through file and remove absolute path
	f = open(file,'r')
	f2 = open(newFile,'w')
	fileChanged = False
	for l in f:
		if re.search(rawHaystack,l):
			l = re.sub(rawHaystack,r'',l)
			fileChanged = True
		f2.write(l)
	f.close()
	f2.close()

	# if nothing changed delete new file
	if not fileChanged:
		os.remove(newFile)
	else:
		# check for overwrite option
		if overwrite:
			shutil.copy(newFile, file)
			os.remove(newFile)


rawHaystack = r'https:\/\/github.com\/HackYourFuture\/{}\/.*?\/{}'
repository = 'JavaScript'
branch = 'master'
overwrite = True

rawHaystack = rawHaystack.format(repository,branch)

path = 'JavaScript'
for (dirpath, dirnames, fileNames) in os.walk(path):
	print(dirpath,dirnames)
	if not ".git" in dirpath:
		for filename in fileNames:
			file = "".join([dirpath, '/', filename])
			print('###')
			print(file)
			removeAbsolutePath(rawHaystack,file,overwrite)