Pelican Themes Randomizer
To streamline testing operations, I opted to move the theme-picker out of the pelican settings file.
With this setup, this script random_theme can be executed before building the site, as shown in the following example:
./random_theme ; make clean devserver
– Enjoy!
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| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- | |
| # pick_random_theme - Thursday, June 20, 2019 | |
| """ This script will choose a random theme from pelican-themes and symlink it | |
| in the project folder. Previously chosen themes are stored in TESTED_THEMES_FILENAME. | |
| To loop through the themes again, delete TESTED_THEMES_FILENAME from disk or change | |
| the filename. | |
| Usage: pick_random_theme | |
| Set THEME = 'random_theme' in your Pelican settings file (ie. pelicanconf.py) | |
| """ | |
| __version__ = '1.0.0' | |
| import os | |
| import sys | |
| from os.path import basename, dirname, exists, lexists, realpath, abspath | |
| from random import choice | |
| sys.path.append(os.curdir) | |
| from themes import Themes | |
| TESTED_THEMES_FILENAME = 'tested_themes.txt' | |
| def main(): | |
| random_theme = choice(Themes) | |
| tested_themes = [] | |
| if os.path.exists(TESTED_THEMES_FILENAME): | |
| with open(TESTED_THEMES_FILENAME, 'rt') as f: | |
| for line in f.readlines(): | |
| tested_themes.append(line.strip()) | |
| while random_theme in tested_themes: | |
| random_theme = choice(Themes) | |
| with open(TESTED_THEMES_FILENAME, 'at') as f: | |
| f.write(random_theme + os.linesep) | |
| make_symlink(random_theme, 'random_theme', overwrite=True) | |
| print("\n\tTheme: %s\n" % random_theme) | |
| return | |
| def make_symlink(filename, linkname, overwrite=False): | |
| if exists(linkname) and overwrite: | |
| if realpath(filename) != realpath(linkname): | |
| os.unlink(linkname) | |
| if not lexists(linkname): | |
| if dirname(abspath(filename)) == dirname(abspath(linkname)): | |
| cur_dir = abspath(os.curdir) | |
| dir_name = dirname(filename) | |
| os.chdir(dir_name) | |
| filename = basename(filename) | |
| linkname = basename(linkname) | |
| # print("%s/%s -> %s" % (dir_name, linkname, filename)) | |
| os.symlink(filename, linkname) | |
| os.chdir(cur_dir) | |
| else: | |
| os.symlink(filename, linkname) | |
| return | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| main() | |