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Generates random articles containing loremipsum to test Pelican site generation.
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
""" | |
Generates random articles containing loremipsum to | |
test Pelican site generation. | |
Requires the loremipsum Python module: | |
pip install loremipsum | |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons | |
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. | |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_GB | |
Copyright 2013 James Brotchie <brotchie@gmail.com>, @brotchie | |
""" | |
from loremipsum import get_sentence, get_paragraph, get_paragraphs | |
from random import randint, sample | |
TAGS = ['matlab', 'python', 'open source'] | |
AUTHOR = 'James Brotchie' | |
randyear = lambda: randint(2010, 2013) | |
randmonth = lambda: randint(1, 12) | |
randday = lambda: randint(1, 28) | |
randtitle = lambda: get_sentence(False) | |
randsummary = lambda: get_paragraph(False) | |
randtag = lambda: sample(TAGS, 1)[0] | |
randcontent = lambda: '\n\n'.join(get_paragraphs(randint(3,4))) | |
def generate_date(): | |
return '{}-{:02}-{:02}'.format(randyear(), randmonth(), randday()) | |
def generate_article(): | |
title = randtitle() | |
slug = title.replace('.', '').replace(' ', '-') | |
info = dict( | |
title=title, | |
slug=slug, | |
date=generate_date(), | |
tags=randtag(), | |
author=AUTHOR, | |
summary=randsummary() | |
) | |
return ('\n'.join('{}: {}'.format(k.capitalize(), v) for k,v in info.iteritems()) + '\n\n' + randcontent(), slug) | |
def main(): | |
for i in range(16): | |
(content, slug) = generate_article() | |
file(slug + '.md', 'w+').write(content) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
main() |
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