Clean White Spaces for Blogger

clean_white_spaces.py

## By: L. C. Berrocal
import sys;

fd = open(sys.argv[1])
contents = fd.readlines()
fd.close()
new_contents = []

of = open(sys.argv[2], "w")
print "Eliminanting white spaces from " + sys.argv[1] + " to " + sys.argv[2]
# Get rid of empty lines
pre = False
line_num = 0
for line in contents:
    line_num += 1
    find_open_pre = "<pre>" in line
    find_close_pre = "</pre>" in line
    if find_open_pre:
        print "PRE FOUND OPEN " + str(line_num)
        pre = True
    if find_close_pre:
	    print "PRE FOUND CLOSE " + str(line_num)
	    pre = False
    if not pre:
        # Strip whitespace, should leave nothing if empty line was just "\n"
        if not line.strip():
            continue
        # We got something, save it
        else:
            new_contents.append(line.rstrip('\n'))
    else:
        new_contents.append(line)
of.writelines(new_contents)
of.close



print "Finished"