SiteGenerator/generate.py

import os
from html5tagger import Document
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 = ""
		for line in navbarfile.readlines():
			split = line.strip().split(";", 1)
			navbar = navbar + "<li><a href='" + split[1] + "'>" + split[0] + "</a></li>"
		print(navbar)
else:
	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
		if pagetitle == homepage:
			foldername = ""
		else:
			foldername = "/" + pagetitle.replace(" ", "-").lower()
			os.mkdir("./website-output" + foldername)

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