SiteGenerator/generate.py

import os
from html5tagger import Document, E, HTML
from shutil import rmtree

#if homepage is at Home.page, set homepage to "Home"
homepage = "Home"

try:
  os.mkdir("./website-output")
except FileExistsError:
  print("Output directory already exists, let's clean it!")

  #deleting contents of folder without deleting the folder, to increase compatibility with various systems
  for root, dirs, files in os.walk('./website-output'):
    for f in files:
      os.unlink(os.path.join(root, f))
    for d in dirs:
      rmtree(os.path.join(root, d))

#generate navigation bar
navbarfound = False
if os.path.exists("./navbar"):
  with open("./navbar", 'r') as navbarfile:
    navbarfound = True
    navbar = E
    for line in navbarfile.readlines():
      split = line.strip().split(";", 1)
      navbar = navbar.li(HTML("<a href='" + split[1] + "'>" + split[0]))

#checking false instead of else to be more sure
if navbarfound == False:
  print("No 'navbar' file found, there will be no navigation bar.")

#generate pages
for file in os.listdir("./"):
  if file.endswith(".page"):
    with open(file, 'r') as page:
      pagetitle = os.path.basename(file).replace(".page", "")
      doc = Document(pagetitle, lang="en")
      for line in page.readlines():
        doc.p(line.strip())

    #creates ./website-output/pagetitle/index.html file if it is not homepage
	foldername = ""
    if pagetitle =! homepage:
      foldername = "/" + pagetitle.replace(" ", "-").lower()
      os.mkdir("./website-output" + foldername)

    with open("./website-output" + foldername + "/index.html", 'w') as newpage:
      if navbarfound:
        newpage.write(str(E.ul(navbar)))
      else:
        newpage.write(str(doc))