Make static html site browsable in Sharepoint by renaming the files with extension aspx and also the content of the files

rename_html2aspx.py

import os
import re
import traceback
import sys
import logging

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


def explore_path(path, params):
    """ This is the function that walks folder tree looking for files to process.
    *   path: is the path of the folder tree
    *   params: is a dictionary requiring the following keys:
    -   ext: is the file extension
    -   method: is the function used to process a file
    -   encoding: is the additional parameter required by method function
    """
    if 'max_errors' in params:
        max_errors = params['max_errors']
    else:
        max_errors = 20
    ext_length = -1*len(params['ext'])
    path = os.path.abspath(path)
    logger.info('Processing %s', path)
    lst = os.listdir(path)
    lst.sort()
    for fname in lst:
        if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, fname)) and fname[ext_length:] == params['ext']:
            try:
                params['method'](os.path.join(path, fname), params)
            except:
                tb = traceback.format_exc()
                print(tb)
                if 'errors' in params:
                    params['errors'][os.path.join(path, fname)] = tb
                else:
                    errors = dict()
                    errors[os.path.join(path, fname)] = tb
                    params['errors'] = errors
                if len(params['errors']) > max_errors:
                    raise SystemError("Too many errors!")
        elif os.path.isdir(os.path.join(path, fname)):
            explore_path(os.path.join(path, fname), params)


def process_html(fpath, params):
    fname = os.path.basename(fpath)
    dname = os.path.dirname(fpath)
    logger.info("Processing: %s", fpath)
    with open(fpath, 'r') as fp:
        content = fp.read()
    # rename the file and replaces '.html' with '.aspx' in the content
    with open(os.path.join(dname, fname[:-4]+'aspx'),'w') as fp:
        fp.write(content.replace('.html','.aspx'))
    os.remove(fpath)


if __name__=="__main__":
    params={'ext': 'html', 'encoding': 'latin1', 'method':process_html, 'max_errors': 5}
    if os.path.isdir(sys.argv[1]):
        explore_path(sys.argv[1], params)