Generate a new post with default contents in nikola.

new_post_nikola.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

DEFAULT_CONTENTS="""<!--
.. link:
.. description:
.. tags: all
.. date: $time
.. title: $title
.. slug: $slug
-->
"""

from sys import argv
from datetime import datetime
from string import Template
from re import compile as regex_compile

TITLE_REGEX = regex_compile('\w+')

def main():
    if len(argv) > 1:
        article_title = argv[1]
        file_name_title = "-".join(TITLE_REGEX.findall(article_title.lower()))

        today = datetime.today()
        file_timestamp = "%04d%02d%2d" % (today.year, today.month, today.day)
        article_timestamp = "%04d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" % (today.year, today.month, today.day, today.hour, today.minute, today.second)

        article_slug = "%s_%s" % (file_timestamp, file_name_title)
        filename = article_slug + ".md"

        f = open("./posts/" + filename, "w")
        f.write(Template(DEFAULT_CONTENTS).substitute(title=article_title, time=article_timestamp, slug=article_slug))
        f.close()

        print "Generate file in " + "./posts/" + filename

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()