clean_skype.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys,re

sqbraces='(\\[.*?\\])'	# Square Braces

regex = re.compile(sqbraces,re.IGNORECASE|re.DOTALL)

input = sys.argv[1]
printname = True

for line in open(input).readlines():
	if line.isspace():
		continue
	else:
		line = line.strip()
	
	found = regex.search(line) 
	if found:
		toreplace = found.group(0)
		replaced = line.replace(toreplace,"").strip()
		name = replaced[:replaced.find(":")]
		if printname:
			print "\r\n[%s]" % name,
		else:
			print "\r\n-",
		print replaced[replaced.find(":")+1:].strip(),
	else:
		print line,