Purpose

Companion script to a hazel workflow to publish a Pelican blog.

Functionality (Status 2018-01-01)

• Puts date prefix ('/images/{year}/{month}/') in front of image references.

Usage

• Use sys.argv[1] to refer to the file being processed by Hazel
  • NOTE: sys needs to be imported;
  • sys.argv[1] returns file incl. full path
• Hazel command: python /path/to/script/blog_date-prefix.py "$1" (with the /bin/bash shell)

Relevant Sources:

• Date matching: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3276180/extracting-date-from-a-string-in-python, https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/string_startswith.htm
• File handling: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17141572
• Search and replace: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/string_replace.htm, https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-string-formatters-in-python-3
• Encoding: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24265848