Very hacky blog script. I stuck it in cron, it gets run daily as me.

blog.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python

from webhelpers.feedgenerator import Atom1Feed
import os
import datetime

def genPost(webRoot, homeDir):
    f = open(homeDir + "flightSim/post1.html")
    idx = f.read()
    f.close()
    bl = webRoot
    fs = bl + "flightSim/"
    blog = bl + "blog/"

    footer = "<hr /><p><a href=\"/feed.atom\"><img src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/43/Feed-icon.svg/200px-Feed-icon.svg.png\" width=32px></img></a></p></body></html>"
    for files in os.listdir(fs):
        if files.endswith(".html"):
            title = files[:-5]
            s = idx % title
            f = open(fs + files, "r")
            toread = f.read()
            f.close()
            f = open(blog + files, "w")
            f.write(s + "<hr />" + toread + footer)
            f.close()

def generateAtomFeed(webRoot, homeDir):
    feed = Atom1Feed(title="Rachel Brindle", link="http://younata.com/feed.atom", description="Rachel Brindle")
    items = {} 
    bl = webRoot
    fs = bl + "flightSim/"
    f = open(homeDir + "flightSim/base1.html")
    idx = f.read()
    f.close()
    for files in os.listdir(fs):
        if files.endswith(".html"):
            s = os.stat(fs + files).st_birthtime
            items[s] = files
    keys = sorted(items.keys(), reverse=True)
    for i in keys:
        s = os.stat(bl + "/flightSim/" + items[i]);
        pubdate = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(i)
        title = items[i].split("html")[0][:-1]
        f = open(fs + items[i])
        data = f.read()
        idx += "<hr /><a href=\"%s\"><h3>%s</h3></a>" % ("/blog/" + items[i], title)
        idx += data
        f.close()
        feed.add_item(title=title, link="http://younata.com/blog/"+items[i], description=data, pubdate=pubdate, author="Rachel Brindle")
    f = open (bl + "feed.atom", "w")
    f.write(feed.writeString("utf-8"))
    f.close()
    idx += "<hr /><p><a href=\"/feed.atom\"><img src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/43/Feed-icon.svg/200px-Feed-icon.svg.png\" width=32px></img></a></p></body></html>"
    f = open(bl + "index.html", "w")
    f.write(idx)
    f.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    from os.path import expanduser
    webRoot = sys.argv[1]
    homeDir = expanduser("~")
    generateAtomFeed(webRoot, homeDir);
    genPost(webRoot, homeDir)