an API-created gist

createjson.py

#!/opt/conda/bin/python
"""
Convert files to json objects uploadable to GitHub gists using:

curl -v -H "Authorization: token <insert token here>" -X POST https://api.github.com/gists --data @<filename.json>

"""

import sys
import json
import os.path as op

fname = op.basename(sys.argv[1])
with open(sys.argv[1], 'r') as myfile:
    fcontents=''.join(myfile.readlines())

jsdict = {
    'description': 'an API-created gist',
    'public': True,
    'files': {
        '{}'.format(fname): {
            'content': fcontents
        } 
    }
}


with open(sys.argv[2], 'w') as outfile:
    json.dump(jsdict, outfile, indent=4)