Scrivener to Textile (converts Scrivener HTML exports to Textile)

ash_scrivener_to_textile.py

"""
 
       ash_scrivener_to_textile.py
       by me@aaronhildebrandt.com
     
       Converts HTML exported from Scrivener to friendly Textile markup
     
       Prerequisities:
               None
     
       Usage:
               python scrivener_to_textile.py input.html
 
"""


import sys
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

print('\nScrivener HTML to Textile\nby Aaron Scott Hildebrandt (andcuriouser.com)\n')
print('Converts HTML exported from Scrivener to friendly Textile markup\n')

if len(sys.argv)<2:
	print('--> You need to specify an HTML file')
	sys.exit()

try: tree = ET.parse(sys.argv[1])
except:
	print('--> Can\'t parse file '+sys.argv[1])
	sys.exit()
root = tree.getroot()
status = None

output = ""

count = 0

for paragraph in root.find('body').findall('p'):
	paragraph = ET.tostringlist(paragraph)
	for chunk in paragraph:
		if chunk and chunk != '<span' and chunk != '<p' and chunk != '>':
			if chunk.find('italic') != -1:
				status = 'italic'
				output += '_'
			elif chunk.find('bold') != -1:
				status = 'bold'
				output += "*"
			elif chunk == '</span>':
				if status == 'italic':
					output += '_'
				elif status == 'bold':
					output += '*'
				status = None
				if output[-2:] == ' _':
					output = output[0:-2]
					output += '_ '
			elif chunk.find('style="') == -1:
				output += chunk

output = output.replace('<p>', '').replace('</p>', '\n').replace('&#8220;', '"').replace('&#8217;', '\'').replace('&#8221;', '"').replace('&#8212;', '--').replace('\n<br />\n\n--\n\n<br />\n', '\n<hr />\n')

output_filename = ('.').join(sys.argv[1].split('.')[:-1])+'.textile'

try:
	outgoing = open(output_filename, 'w')
	outgoing.write(output)
	outgoing.close()
	print('--> Saved Textile markup as '+output_filename)
except:
	print('--> I ran into an error saving '+output_filename)