simple example script to join lecture notes with python and pdfjoin

joinscript.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import os

def shellquote(s):
      return "'" + s.replace("'", "'\\''") + "'"

files = sorted(os.listdir("./"))

shellstring = ""

print "Joining the follwoing files:"

for filename in files:

      if not 'Handzettel' in filename and 'pdf' in filename and not 'Druckversion' in filename:

            filename = filename.replace(" ", "\\ ")

            print filename

            shellstring = shellstring+" "+filename+""



print "\n===================\nTo join run \n===================\n\n"

print "pdfjam --fitpaper true --rotateoversize false --suffix joined --outfile joined.pdf "+shellstring