build.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os, shutil

PAGE_ORDER = ['header', 'banner', 'content', \
              'footer', 'sidebar', 'analytics']

def createPage(content, dest = None):
    page, w_target = '', 'site'
    for section in PAGE_ORDER:
        if section is 'content':
            r_target = 'content'
            if dest:
                r_target = os.path.join(r_target, dest)
            r_target = os.path.join(r_target, content)
        else:
            if section is 'header' and content == 'index.html':
                section = 'header-index'    #twitter javascript
            r_target = os.path.join('static', '%s.html' % section)
        with open(r_target, 'r') as f:
            html = f.read()
        page += html
    if dest:
        w_target = os.path.join(w_target, dest)
    w_target = os.path.join(w_target, content)
    with open(w_target, 'w') as f:
        f.write(page)
    print 'Generated %s' % w_target

#clean out old directory
if os.path.exists('site'):
    shutil.rmtree('site')
print 'Cleaned site/ directory'

#build directory structure
os.mkdir('site')
SITE_DIRS = ['images', 'projects', 'css']
for dir in SITE_DIRS:
    os.mkdir(os.path.join('site', dir))
print 'Built directory structure'

#generate static content
#TODO generate sidebar
print 'Generated template elements'

#generate content pages
cwd = os.getcwd()
for item in os.listdir(os.path.join(cwd, 'content')):
    if item.endswith('.html'):
        createPage(item)
    dir = os.path.join(cwd, 'content', item)
    if os.path.isdir(dir):
        for file in os.listdir(dir):
            if file.endswith('.html'):
                createPage(file, item)

#copy over images and css