#!/usr/bin/env python import string #import pdb import os import sys #import posix import pwd import fcntl # needs to do: # get a new ID for the # new entry. os.chdir("/afs/sipb/project/www/knowledge-base/sipbml") id = int(open("current_id",'r').read()) id += 1 # # This needs a way to DTRT with file locking. f = open("current_id",'w') fcntl.flock(f,fcntl.LOCK_EX) f.write(repr(id) + "\n") fcntl.flock(f,fcntl.LOCK_UN) f.close() # get user details. # name = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[4] # make a template with # the relevant details. template = """ Pick one: Maintained. Unmaintained. Pick one: Complete. Draft. Rough draft. ' + name + """ Any ordinary XHTML can go here. Also, there are tags such as "footnote" which you might find handy. The composer will move the contents of the note to the bottom with a link to and from where they written. """ id = repr(id) f = open(id,'w').write(template) status = 'edit' # invoke $EDITOR on it. while status[0] == 'e' : os.system(os.environ["VISUAL"] + " " + id) status = raw_input('What now? edit, save, quit >') # parse and process the file. Done! if status[0] == 's' : print "Generating an HTML file... " # That last word in the command line is what # tells the parser to give us the title for RCS. # kbedit will ask for the author tags. p = os.popen('python python/sipb1.py ' + id + ' ../html/'+id+' title') title=p.read() p.close() print "Introducing your file to RCS, using the title.." p = os.popen('rcs -i ' + id,'w') p.write(title + '\n.\n') p.close()