socializer/doc/documentation_importer.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from codecs import open
""" This script converts the hold documentation (saved in markdown files) in a python file with a list of strings to translate it using gettext."""

def prepare_documentation_in_file(fileSource, fileDest):
	""" This takes documentation written in a markdown file and put all the contents in a python file, to create a translatable  documentation.
	 @fileSource str: A markdown(.md) file.
	 @fileDest str: A file where this will put the new strings"""

	f1 = open(fileSource, "r", encoding="utf-8")
	f2 = open(fileDest, "w", encoding="utf-8")
	lns = f1.readlines()
	f2.write("# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n")
	f2.write("documentation = [\n")
	for i in lns:
		if "\n" == i or i.splitlines()[0] == "":
			newvar = "\"\",\n"
		elif "\n" == i[-1]:
			newvar = "_(u\"\"\"%s\"\"\"),\n" % (i.splitlines()[0])
		else:
			newvar = "_(u\"\"\"%s\"\"\"),\n" % (i)
		f2.write(newvar)
	f1.close()
	f2.write("]")
	f2.close()


prepare_documentation_in_file("manual.md", "strings.py")
prepare_documentation_in_file("changelog.md", "changelog.py")