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Helper to generate a RST-formatted article stub for my monthly blog post about books.
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books.json
{
"2015": {
"october": {
"read": [
{
"author": "John Steinbeck",
"title": "The Moon Is Down"
}
],
"reading": [
{
"author": "Marcel Proust",
"title": "The Complete Short Stories Of Marcel Proust"
},
{
"author": "Herman Melville",
"title": "Billy Budd and Other Stories"
}
]
},
"september": {
"read": [
{
"author": "Nick Hornby",
"title": "A Long Way Down"
},
{
"author": "Jane Austen",
"title": "Sense and Sensibility"
},
{
"author": "Paolo Bacigalupi",
"title": "The Water Knife"
},
{
"author": "Osamu Tezuka",
"title": "Buddha, Vol. 1\\: Kapilavastu"
},
{
"author": "Franz Kafka",
"title": "Selected Short Stories"
}
],
"reading": [
{
"author": "Herman Melville",
"title": "Billy Budd and Other Stories"
}
],
"gift": [
{
"author": "Machado de Assis",
"title": "Helena"
},
{
"author": "Machado de Assis",
"title": "Contos Fluminenses"
},
{
"author": "Jose de Alencar",
"title": "O Guarani"
},
{
"author": "Clarice Lispector",
"title": "O Lustre"
},
{
"author": "Dias Gomes",
"title": "O Santo Inquerito"
},
{
"author": "Gilberto Freire",
"title": "Dona Sinha e o Filho Padre"
},
{
"author": "Saul Bellow",
"title": "Seize the Day"
},
{
"author": "Ariano Suassuma",
"title": "Auto da Compadecida"
},
{
"author": "Rubem Fonseca",
"title": "O Buraco na Parece"
},
{
"author": "Rubem Fonseca",
"title": "Bufo & Spallanzani"
},
{
"author": "Machado de Assis",
"title": "Quincas Borda"
},
{
"author": "Joaquim Manuel de Macedo",
"title": "A Moreninha"
},
{
"author": "Jose Saramago",
"title": "Todos os Nomes"
},
{
"author": "William Faulkner",
"title": "As I Lay Dying"
},
{
"author": "Leo Tolstoy",
"title": "War and Peace"
}
]
},
"august": {
"read": [
{
"author": "Edgar Rice Burroughs",
"title": "A Princess of Mars"
},
{
"author": "Shirley Jackson",
"title": "The Lottery\\: And Other Stories"
},
{
"author": "Robert M. Pirsig",
"title": "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance\\: An Inquiry Into Values"
},
{
"author": "John Steinbeck",
"title": "Cannery Row"
},
{
"author": "Shirley Jackson",
"title": "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"
},
{
"author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
"title": "The Sentinel"
},
{
"author": "Neil Gaiman",
"title": "Neverwhere"
},
{
"author": "Graciliano Ramos",
"title": "Vidas Secas"
}
],
"reading": [
{
"author": "Franz Kafka",
"title": "Selected Short Stories"
},
{
"author": "Herman Melville",
"title": "Billy Budd and Other Stories"
}
],
"bought": [
{
"author": "John Steinbeck",
"title": "Cannery Row"
},
{
"author": "Herman Melville",
"title": "Typee"
},
{
"author": "Jane Austen",
"title": "The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen\\: Volume VI\\: Minor Works"
},
{
"author": "Lewis Carrol",
"title": "The Annotated Alice\\: The Definitive Edition"
},
{
"author": "Henry James",
"title": "Italian Hours"
},
{
"author": "Ray Bradbury",
"title": "The Vintage Bradbury"
},
{
"author": "Franz Kafka",
"title": "Amerika"
},
{
"author": "Nikolai Gogol",
"title": "The Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector, and Selected Stories"
},
{
"author": "Henry James",
"title": "The Turn of the Screw"
},
{
"author": "William Golding",
"title": "Lord of the Flies"
},
{
"author": "Marcel Proust",
"title": "Remembrance of Things Past\\: Volume One"
},
{
"author": "Franz Kafka",
"title": "Selected Short Stories"
},
{
"author": "Alexandre Dumas",
"title": "The Count of Monte Cristo"
},
{
"author": "Flannery O'Connor",
"title": "A Good Man Is Hard to Find And Other Stories"
},
{
"author": "Henry Miller",
"title": "Tropic of Cancer"
},
{
"author": "Marcel Proust",
"title": "Swann's Way"
},
{
"author": "Milan Kundera",
"title": "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
},
{
"author": "Nick Hornby",
"title": "A Long Way Down"
},
{
"author": "Dan Brown",
"title": "Digital Fortress"
},
{
"author": "Saul Bellow",
"title": "Seize the Day"
},
{
"author": "Stieg Larsson",
"title": "The Girl Who Played with Fire"
},
{
"author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
"title": "Complete Tales & Poems"
},
{
"author": "Bram Stoker",
"title": "Dracula"
}
]
},
"july": {
"read": [
{
"author": "John Steinbeck",
"title": "Of Mice and Men"
},
{
"author": "Ernest Cline",
"title": "Armada"
},
{
"author": "Ray Bradbury",
"title": "The October Country"
},
{
"author": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
"title": "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
},
{
"author": "Neal Stephenson",
"title": "Cryptonomicon"
},
{
"author": "Michael Lopp",
"title": "Managing Humans\\: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager"
},
{
"author": "C. S. Lewis",
"title": "The Magician's Nephew"
},
{
"author": "C. S. Lewis",
"title": "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"
},
{
"author": "C. S. Lewis",
"title": "The Horse and His Boy"
},
{
"author": "Erich Maria Remarque",
"title": "All Quiet on the Western Front"
}
],
"reading": [
{
"author": "J. J. Abrams",
"title": "S"
},
{
"author": "Luciano Ramalho",
"title": "Fluent Python"
}
],
"bought": [
{
"author": "Junot Díaz",
"title": "This Is How You Lose Her"
},
{
"author": "Ernest Cline",
"title": "Ready Player One"
},
{
"author": "Ernest Cline",
"title": "Armada"
},
{
"author": "Harper Lee",
"title": "Go Set a Watchman"
},
{
"author": "Raymond Chandler",
"title": "The Little Sister"
},
{
"author": "Azar Nafisi",
"title": "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
},
{
"author": "Mario Vargas Llosa",
"title": "The War of the End of the World"
}
]
},
"june": {
"read": [
{
"author": "Jim Whitehurst",
"title": "The Open Organization"
},
{
"author": "Flannery O'Connor",
"title": "Wise Blood"
}
],
"reading": [
{
"author": "Ray Bradbury",
"title": "The October Country"
},
{
"author": "J. J. Abrams",
"title": "S"
},
{
"author": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
"title": "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
},
{
"author": "Luciano Ramalho",
"title": "Fluent Python"
},
{
"author": "Neal Stephenson",
"title": "Cryptonomicon"
}
],
"gift": [
{
"author": "John Cheever",
"title": "John Cheever\\: Complete Novels"
},
{
"author": "Jorge Amado",
"title": "Capitães da Areia"
},
{
"author": "Jorge Amado",
"title": "Tenda dos Milagres"
},
{
"author": "Jorge Amado",
"title": "Cacau"
},
{
"author": "Jorge Amado",
"title": "A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro Dágua"
},
{
"author": "Graciliano Ramod",
"title": "Vidas Secas"
},
{
"author": "Howard Mittelmark",
"title": "Read This Next\\: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read"
},
{
"author": "John Steinbeck",
"title": "The Short Stories of John Steinbeck"
},
{
"author": "Ray Bradbury",
"title": "The October Contry"
},
{
"author": "Henry David Thoreau",
"title": "Walden"
},
{
"author": "Isaac Asimov",
"title": "The Foundation Trilogy"
},
{
"author": "Edgar Rice Burroughs",
"title": "John Carter of Mars"
},
{
"author": "Michael Kelahan",
"title": "Classic American Short Stories"
},
{
"author": "Ray Bradbury",
"title": "The Martian Chronicles/The Illustrated Man/The Golden Apples of the Sun"
}
],
"bought": [
{
"author": "Robert M. Pirsig",
"title": "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance\\: An Inquiry Into Values"
},
{
"author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
"title": "The Possessed"
},
{
"author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
"title": "Notes From Underground"
},
{
"author": "Camus",
"title": "The Fall"
},
{
"author": "Herman Melville",
"title": "Great Short Works of Herman Melville"
},
{
"author": "Anton Chekhov",
"title": "The Portable Chekhov"
},
{
"author": "Nick Hornby",
"title": "Slam"
},
{
"author": "Sophocles",
"title": "Sophocles I\\: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone"
},
{
"author": "Machado de Assis",
"title": "Dom Casmurro"
},
{
"author": "Jack London",
"title": "Novels and Stories\\: Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories"
},
{
"author": "Marcel Proust",
"title": "The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust"
}
]
},
"may": {
"read": [
{
"author": "Mikhail Bulgakov",
"title": "The Master and Margarita"
},
{
"author": "Bill Green",
"title": "I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski\\: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You"
},
{
"author": "Pamela Paul",
"title": "By The Book\\: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review"
},
{
"author": "Dave Hoover",
"title": "Apprenticeship Patterns\\: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman"
},
{
"author": "Junot Díaz",
"title": "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
}
],
"reading": [
{
"author": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
"title": "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
},
{
"author": "Neal Stephenson",
"title": "Cryptonomicon"
},
{
"author": "Luciano Ramalho",
"title": "Fluent Python"
}
],
"bought": [
{
"author": "Gabriel Garcia Márquez",
"title": "Love in the Time of Cholera"
},
{
"author": "Gabriel Garcia Márquez",
"title": "Memories of my Melancholy Whores"
},
{
"author": "John Updike",
"title": "Rabbit at Rest"
}
]
},
"april": {
"read": [
{
"author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
"title": "Stranger in a Strange Land"
},
{
"author": "Nick Hornby",
"title": "More Baths, Less Talking"
},
{
"author": "Steve Martin",
"title": "Shopgirl"
},
{
"author": "O. Henry",
"title": "Heart of the West"
},
{
"author": "Clifford D. Simak",
"title": "City"
},
{
"author": "Pearl S. Buck",
"title": "The Good Earth"
},
{
"author": "Neil Gaiman",
"title": "Trigger Warning\\: Short Fictions and Disturbances"
}
],
"reading": [
{
"author": "Pamela Paul",
"title": "By The Book\\: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review"
},
{
"author": "Dave Hoover",
"title": "Apprenticeship Patterns\\: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman"
},
{
"author": "Nick Hornby",
"title": "Ten Years in the Tub\\: A Decade Soaking in Great Books"
}
],
"gift": [
{
"author": "Flann O'Brien",
"title": "The Third Policeman"
},
{
"author": "Phillip K. Dick",
"title": "The Man in the High Castle"
}
],
"bought": [
{
"author": "Sydney Padula",
"title": "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage\\: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer"
},
{
"author": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
"title": "The Horror of the Heights and Other Tales of Suspense"
},
{
"author": "John Williams",
"title": "Stoner"
},
{
"author": "Nikolai Gogol",
"title": "Taras Bulba"
},
{
"author": "Elizabeth Gaskell",
"title": "Gothic Tales"
},
{
"author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
"title": "The Great Gatsby"
},
{
"author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
"title": "This Side of Paradise"
},
{
"author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
"title": "The Last Tycoon"
},
{
"author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
"title": "Tender Is the Night"
},
{
"author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
"title": "The Beautiful and Damned"
},
{
"author": "Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin",
"title": "The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin"
},
{
"author": "Ernest Hemingway",
"title": "To Have and Have Not"
},
{
"author": "Anton Chekhov",
"title": "The Portable Chekhov"
},
{
"author": "Ray Bradbury",
"title": "Long After Midnight"
},
{
"author": "Pearl S. Buck",
"title": "The Good Earth"
},
{
"author": "Jackson J. Benson",
"title": "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck"
},
{
"author": "Charlotte Bront\\u00eb",
"title": "Jane Eyre"
},
{
"author": "Maya Angelou",
"title": "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
},
{
"author": "John Steinbeck",
"title": "Journal of a Novel"
},
{
"author": "Christopher Morley",
"title": "The Haunted Bookshop"
},
{
"author": "Ernest Hemingway",
"title": "The Garden of Eden"
},
{
"author": "George Orwell",
"title": "Animal Farm"
},
{
"author": "Flannery O'Connor",
"title": "Everything That Rises Must Converge"
},
{
"author": "Ernest Hemingway",
"title": "The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway"
},
{
"author": "Jorge Luis Borge",
"title": "Labyrinths"
},
{
"author": "O. Henry",
"title": "Collected Stories"
},
{
"author": "Herman Melville",
"title": "Billy Budd and Other Stories"
},
{
"author": "Robert Galbraith",
"title": "The Cuckoo's Calling"
}
]
}
}
}
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monthly.py
import json
import sys
from datetime import datetime
GOODREADS_URL = u'https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query={0}'
picture = """
.. figure:: https://omaciel.fedorapeople.org/book_review.png
:alt: Books - {0}
:align: left
:figwidth: 40 %
"""
def read_json(filename):
""" Reads a JSON file and returns it."""
with open(filename, 'r+') as infile:
return json.load(infile)
def generate_report(year, month, filename):
# Today is
today = datetime.today()
month_and_year = u"{0} {1}".format(month.title(), year)
# Grab the data file
all_books = read_json(filename)
# Books for the month
month_books = all_books[year][month]
all_authors = list(
set([book['author']
for section in month_books.values()
for book in section]))
all_titles = list(
set([book['title']
for section in month_books.values()
for book in section]))
# Print the header
title = u"Books - {0}".format(month_and_year)
print title
print u"#" * len(title)
print u":date: {0}".format(today.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"))
print u":authors: Og Maciel"
print u":category:"
print u":tags: {0}".format(", ".join(author for author in all_authors))
print u":description:"
print
print picture.format(month_and_year)
print
print
for section, books in month_books.items():
print section.title()
print '-' * len(section)
print
books.sort()
for book in books:
print u'* `{0}`_ by `{1}`_'.format(book['title'], book['author'])
# Add book author and title to links lists
if book['author'] not in all_authors:
all_authors.append(book['author'])
if book['title'] not in all_titles:
all_titles.append(book['title'])
print
# Sort links lists
all_authors.sort()
all_titles.sort()
print '.. Author Links'
for author in all_authors:
url = GOODREADS_URL.format(author.replace(' ', '+'))
print u'.. _{0}: {1}'.format(author, url)
print
print '.. Books Links'
for book in all_titles:
url = GOODREADS_URL.format(book.replace(' ', '+'))
print u'.. _{0}: {1}'.format(book, url)
if __name__ == "__main__":
generate_report(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], 'books.json')
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