Downloads and manages GitHub gists using the GitHub API.

GitHub Gist Downloader.py

import requests 
import os 

def create_directory(dirname): 
    #Creates a new directory if a directory with dirname does not exist 

    try: 
        os.stat(dirname) 
    except: 
        os.mkdir(dirname) 

def show(obj): 
    #Displays the items in the obj 

    for i in range(len(obj)): 
        print(str(i)+': '+str(obj[i])) 

def auth(): 
    #Asks for the user details 

    ask_auth = input("Do you want to download gists from your account 
                               ? Type 'yes' or 'no': ") 
    if(ask_auth=="yes"): 
        user = input("Enter your username: ") 
        password = input("Enter your password: ") 
        request = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/'+user+'/gists'
                                             , auth=(user, password)) 
    elif(ask_auth=="no"): 
        user = input("Enter username: ") 
        request = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/'
                                                       +user+'/gists') 
    return [ask_auth, user, request] 

def load(request): 
   #Loads the files and the gist urls 

   output = request.text.split(",") 
   gist_urls = [] 
   files = [] 
   for item in output: 
       if "raw_url" in item: 
           gist_urls.append(str(item[11:-1])) 
       if "filename" in item: 
           files.append(str(item.split(":")[1][2:-1])) 
   return [gist_urls, files] 

def write_gist(filename, text): 
    #Writes text(gist) to filename 

    fp = open(filename, 'w') 
    fp.write(text) 
    fp.close() 

def download(permission, user, request, fileno): 
    #Loads and writes all the gists to <em>dirname</em> 

    if(permission == "yes" or permission == "no"): 
        gist_urls, files = load(request) 
        dirname = user+"'s_gists/"
        create_directory(dirname) 
        if(fileno[1] == "all"): 
            for i in range(len(gist_urls)): 
                gist = requests.get(gist_urls[i]) 
                write_gist(dirname+files[i], gist.text) 
        else: 
            for i in range(1,len(fileno)): 
                gist = requests.get(gist_urls[int(fileno[i])]) 
                write_gist(dirname+files[int(fileno[i])], gist.text) 

def detailed(urls, pos): 
    #Prints out the contents of a file 

    gist = requests.get(urls[int(pos)]) 
    print(gist.text) 

def main(): 
    #Authenticates and downloads gists according to user's choice 
    #Commands: 
    #show: To show all the available gists with their assigned gistno 
    #download all: To download all the available gists 
    #download gistno(s): To download gist(s) assigned to gistno(s) 
    #detailed gistno: To print content of gist assigned to gistno 
    #exit: To exit the script 

    ask_auth, user, request = auth() 
    urls, files = load(request) 
    try: 
        while(1): 
            command = input("Enter your command: ") 
            if("download" in command): 
                download(ask_auth, user, request, command.split(" ")) 
            elif("detailed" in command): 
                detailed(urls, command.split(" ")[1]) 
            elif(command == "show"): 
                show(files) 
            elif(command == "exit"): 
                return
    except: 
        pass

if(__name__ == '__main__'): 
    main()