CSS compressor for phpBB.

compress.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Compress all CSS files imported in a single file (eg. stylesheet.css) and write
it's minified content to new file called stylesheet.min.css.

Requirements:
- cssmin library (https://github.com/zacharyvoase/cssmin)

Usage:
- compress.py -f path_to_stylesheet
"""

import argparse
import cssmin
import os
import re

# Parse arguments from command line
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('-f', '--file', default = 'stylesheet.css', help = 'path to stylesheet.css')
args = parser.parse_args()

# Get base path of given file
base_path = os.path.dirname(args.file)

# Extract imported *.css files list
files_list = re.findall('"(.*\.css)"', open(args.file).read())

# Create new file
minified_file = open(os.path.join(base_path, 'stylesheet.min.css'), 'w')

for f in files_list:
	# Append minified content to new file
	minified_file.write(cssmin.cssmin(open(os.path.join(base_path, f)).read()))