A pre-commit hook for generating a leanpub book.txt file.

pre-commit

#!/usr/bin/python

# Prep output from Scrivener for publication by Leanpub.
# By Nate Dickson <nate@natedickson.com>
# 1 August 2018


import os, shutil, errno

# Remove the manuscript images folder before creating book.txt
# Scrivener will probably have wiped it out already, but let's make sure.
shutil.rmtree("manuscript/images",True)

# Get a sorted list of all files in the manuscript and add them to book.txt.
os.chdir("./manuscript")
file_list = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk("./"):
    if '.git' in dirs:
        dirs.remove('.git')
    for name in sorted(files):
        if name != ".DS_Store" and name !="book.txt":
            full_path_string = os.path.join(root,name)[2:]+"\n"
            file_list.append(full_path_string)

book_file = open("./book.txt","w")
book_file.writelines(sorted(file_list))
book_file.close()

# Copy the images directory into the manuscript
# Because Scrivener wipes it out on export.
shutil.copytree("../images","images")
os.system("git add --all")

Some notes:

• This is a very purpose driven script. If you're not taking text exported from Scrivener and publishing it in Leanpub this doesn't really get you much. But the pattern might be useful.
• On line 12 we are stripping off the initial ./ because Leanpub doesn't need it.
• I could probably make line 11 more extensible by telling it to look for anything in an array and skip those. But I deliberately chose not to optimize early. And it is killing me.
• Written for python 2 because I'm lazy. I know Python 3 has easier ways to do some of this stuff, I just don't have it installed on all my machines.