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#!/usr/bin/python
# read an svn parent page and export everything

import re
import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from subprocess import call
import os

subversion = 'http://subversion.tigris.org/'
parentdir = 'http://svn/repos'

doc = urllib2.urlopen(parentdir + os.sep).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(doc)

tail = re.compile(r"^[p-z]")
for a in soup('a'):
    if a['href'] == subversion:
        continue
    if not tail.match(a['href']):
        continue
    repo = os.sep.join([parentdir, a['href']])
    exportcmd = "svn export %s" % (repo)
    call(exportcmd, shell=True)