Python script to merge all questions downloaded from moodle into a single html file.

merge_questions.py

import os
import sys
import zipfile

# split string s at symbol c at the n-th delimeter
def split_at(s, c, n):
    words = s.split(c)
    return c.join(words[:n]), c.join(words[n:])

try:
    zippath = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
    cwd = os.getcwd()
    zippath = cwd

try:
    zip_ref = zipfile.ZipFile(zippath, 'r')
    path = zippath.replace(".zip", "")
    zip_ref.extractall(path)
    zip_ref.close()
except: 
  pass
  path = zippath


#set to the file extension of "to-be-merged" files
ext = '.html'
#set to the name of your output file
results = path + '/output.html'

files = os.listdir(path)
out = open(results, 'w+')
os.chdir(path)
for i, f in enumerate(files):
  if f.endswith(ext) and f != results:
    name = split_at(f, '_', 1)[0] # get name of student 
    data = open(f)

    for l in data:
    # do some html formatting
      l = l.replace("<p>", "")
      l = l.replace("</p>", "")
      l = l.replace("<div>", "")
      l = l.replace("</div>", "")
    # print name + question
      print("<p>", i+1, ".", name+":", l, "</p>", file=out)
    data.close()

out.close()