Python offline manifest file creator. #html5 #python #offline #manifest

gistfile1.py

#! /usr/local/bin/python

"""
Creates a file in the same directory named offline.manifest, 
or if that file already exists, replaces its contents with project files.

To ignore files of a particular type add their file extension to the ignore list.
"""

import os

manifest = "offline.manifest"
ignore = ['.manifest', '.py', '.rb', '.sample', '.sass', '.sassc', '.scssc']

file = open(manifest, 'w')
file.write('CACHE MANIFEST\n')

for root, dirs, files in os.walk('./'):
   for name in files:       
       filename = os.path.join(root, name)
       # Files like .DS_Store and .git will not have a file extension. To exclude them, first check if there is a file extension, and then if the file extension is in the list of file types to ignore.
       if os.path.splitext(filename)[1] != '' and os.path.splitext(filename)[1] not in ignore:
           file.write("%s\n" % filename)

file.close()