Ports a pyblosxom 'entries' directory into blogofile markdown files

pyblosxom-to-blogofile.py

# Ports a pyblosxom 'entries' directory into blogofile markdown files
# Luke Macken <[email protected]>

import os, stat, time

for old in os.listdir('entries'):
    if old.startswith('comments') or old == 'LATEST':
        continue

    new = file('_posts/%s.html' % old.replace('.txt', ''), 'w')

    mtime = time.localtime(os.stat('entries/%s' % old)[stat.ST_MTIME])
    timestamp = time.strftime('%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S', mtime)

    header = """---
title: %(title)s
date: %(date)s
categories: %(categories)s
---
"""
    body = ''
    data = {'date': timestamp}

    for i, line in enumerate(file('entries/%s' % old).readlines()):
        line = line.strip()
        if i == 0:
            data['title'] = '"%s"' % line
        elif line.startswith('#tags'):
            data['categories'] = ', '.join(line.replace('#tags ', '').split(',')).lower()
        elif line.startswith('#mdate'):
            continue
        else:
            body += line + '\n'

    new.write(header % data)
    new.write(body)
    new.close()