build.py

"""
I constantly forget to commit master.rst when I commit a post. Seems like the
workflow should not require this extra step.

This causes pages, and multiple posts from the same day, to be listed
alphabetically by the first character of their filename (which is probably the
slugified title unless you changed something).
"""

import os
import re

preamble = """Sitemap
=======

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1


"""

years = []
posts = []

for d in os.listdir('.'):
    if re.match(r'\d{4}$', d):  # let's assume a 4-digit number is a year
        years.append(d)

"""
sample output of os.walk

('2015/', ['01'], [])
('2015/01', ['28', '27', '13', '15', '31', '21', '14', '19', '29'], [])
('2015/01/28', [], ['what_makes_a_good_post.rst'])
('2015/01/27', [], ['those_funny_characters_in_vim.rst'])
...
"""

for y in years:
    for p in os.walk(y):
        if p[1] == []:
            # build name, stripping .rst from filename
            for title in p[2]:
                posts.append(p[0] + '/' + title[:-4])

posts = sorted(posts, key=lambda p: int(p[:4] + p[5:7] + p[8:10]), reverse=True)

try:
    os.remove('master.rst')
except OSError:
    pass
f = open('master.rst', 'w')

f.write(preamble)
for p in posts:
    f.write('    ' + p + '\n')

# For ordinary page titles, use the line below
# for page in sorted(os.listdir('pages')):
# OR for pages prefaced with a 2-digit number to indicate order, use this:
for page in sorted(os.listdir('pages')):
    f.write('    pages/' + page + '\n')
f.close()