mutt script that creates github issues

mutt2issue.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

## About
# Use the content of an email to create a github issue
# 
## Usage
# add this to your .muttrc:
# macro index,pager \ei "<pipe-message>~/path/to/mutt2issue.py<enter>" 
#
# Requires the `hub` CLI tool: https://hub.github.com/

# import libraries
import sys
import time
import email
import os
from email.header import decode_header
from subprocess import call, Popen, PIPE
import re

# read from stdin and parse subject
message = sys.stdin.read()
message = email.message_from_string(message)

body = None
for part in message.walk():
    if part.get_content_type() == "text/plain":
        if body is None:
            body = ""
        charset = part.get_content_charset()
        if charset is None:
            charset = 'ASCII'
        body += unicode(
            part.get_payload(decode=True),
            charset, 'replace'
        ).encode('utf8','replace')

message = message['Subject']

# decode internationalized subject and transform ascii into utf8
message = decode_header(message)
message = ' '.join([ unicode(t[0], t[1] or 'ASCII' ) for t in message ])
message = message.encode('utf8')

message = '%s\n%s' % (message, body)
if 'my-project-id' in message or 'some-other-string' in message:
    print 'Project X detected'
    os.chdir('/path/to/my/project')
else:
    print 'Cannot recognize the project in email...'
    time.sleep(1)
    print message
    time.sleep(2)
    sys.exit()

call(['hub', 'issue', 'create', '--edit', '-m', message])