make-post.py

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Taken from: http://mybyteofcode.blogspot.it/2010/01/use-markdown-and-pygments-with-blogger.html
# All credits to the original author
# Modified to work with Marked.app
import sys
import os
import markdown

# Read the given file, convert it to html then return the html
def convert(file):
    text = file.read()
    html = markdown.markdown(text, ['codehilite'])
    return html

def main(args=None):
    # Read from the STDIN and print to STDOUT
    if (len(args) is 1):
        print convert(sys.stdin)
        return

    # Read from file and write to file
    if (args is None or len(args) < 2):
        print "Error, input file missing, usage:"
        print args[0] + " <markdown formatted file>"
        return

    markdownInFile = os.path.abspath(args[1])

    (dir, file) = os.path.split(markdownInFile)
    (file, ext) = os.path.splitext(file)
    markdownOutFile = os.path.join(dir, ".".join([file,'html']))

    print "in:  ", markdownInFile

    with open(markdownInFile, 'r') as f: html = convert(f)
    with open(markdownOutFile, 'w') as f: f.write(html)

    print "out: ", markdownOutFile

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(sys.argv)