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Compiles a directory tree of single file journal entries in this structure:
./2013/04/23
./2013/04/24
./2013/04/26
...
etc.
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| #!/usr/bin/python | |
| import glob | |
| # uncomment for FTP support -- requires ftplib | |
| #from ftplib import FTP | |
| output = open("index.html", "w") | |
| html_escape_table = { | |
| "&": "&", | |
| '"': """, | |
| "'": "'", | |
| ">": ">", | |
| "<": "<", | |
| } | |
| # Credit: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2077283/ | |
| def htmlEscape(text): | |
| return "".join(html_escape_table.get(c,c) for c in text) | |
| def startBody(): | |
| output.write("<!DOCTYPE HTML>\r\n<html><head><title>My Journal</title></head><body>") | |
| output.write("<h1>My Journal<h1>") | |
| def endBody(): | |
| output.write("</body></html>"); | |
| def startEntry(date): | |
| output.write("<h2>" + date + "</h2><!--startentry-->"); | |
| def endEntry(): | |
| output.write("<!--endentry-->"); | |
| def insertParagraph(paragraph): | |
| p = paragraph.strip() | |
| if p != "" and p != "\n": | |
| p = htmlEscape(p) | |
| output.write("<ul><li>") | |
| output.write(p.replace("\n", "</li><li>")) | |
| output.write("</li></ul>") | |
| output.write("<br>") | |
| #BEGIN | |
| startBody(); | |
| #list all journal files and sort them in reverse chrono order (newest first) | |
| #directory structure should be in ./YYYY/MM/DD format like so: | |
| #./2013/04/31 | |
| files = glob.glob("./*/*/*") | |
| files.sort(reverse=True) | |
| # loop through journal files | |
| for fileitem in files: | |
| # read the journal file | |
| f = open(fileitem) | |
| j = f.read() | |
| j = j.replace("\r", "") | |
| # split into paragraphs | |
| j = j.split("\n\n") | |
| startEntry(fileitem) | |
| # loop through paragraphs | |
| for p in j: | |
| insertParagraph(p) | |
| endEntry() | |
| endBody() | |
| output.close() | |
| # additional feature! | |
| # uncomment the code here to upload this file to an FTP site: | |
| #ftpuser="FTPUSER" | |
| #ftppass="FTPPASS" | |
| #ftphost="example.com" | |
| #ftp = FTP(ftphost, ftpuser, ftppass) | |
| #ftp.storlines("STOR index.html", open("index.html")) |
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The FTP feature at the bottom is great for publishing journals automatically to the web. See it in action here:
http://iregretnothing.net/trent/journal/