upcoming2posts

By Stuart Geiger (@staeiou), MIT license

This is a script you run the day after THW, which changes yesterday's file from "upcoming" to "posts" so that the next week's topic shows on the main page.



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!git pull









    



Already up-to-date.



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import datetime
from datetime import timedelta
import os
import glob
import re



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today = datetime.date.today()
yesterday = today - timedelta(1)



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if yesterday.isoweekday() == 2:
    yesterday_str = yesterday.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")



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filename = glob.glob("_posts/" + yesterday_str + "*")[0]



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with open(filename, "r") as file:
    file_text = file.read()
file_text









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'---\nlayout: post\ntitle: Spring Break -- no meeting\ncomments: true\ncategory: upcoming\ntags: meeting <+ tags +>\n---\n\n\n'



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file_text = file_text.replace('category: upcoming', 'category: posts')
file_text = file_text.replace('category:upcoming', 'category: posts')
file_text









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'---\nlayout: post\ntitle: Spring Break -- no meeting\ncomments: true\ncategory: posts\ntags: meeting <+ tags +>\n---\n\n\n'



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with open(filename, "w") as file:
    file.write(file_text)



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!git commit -a -m "upcoming to posts [automated]"









    



[master fa90fef] upcoming to posts [automated]
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)



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# note that you have to have credentials set up to push from a notebook, otherwise you do it manually
!git push



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