Use main()

Home.page

@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ Another markdown line
 <a href=/test>**Another markdown line 2**</a>
 >
   <p><i>**HTML Italics test 1**
-  <p><i>HTML Italics test 2
+  <p><i>[Test link](/about)

generate.py

@@ -4,20 +4,7 @@ from shutil import rmtree
 import markdown
 import html
 
-#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))
 
 def generateNavigationBar(lines):
   global navbar
@@ -84,16 +71,37 @@ def generatePage(title, doc):
     else:
       newpage.write(str(doc))
 
-if os.path.exists("./navbar"):
+
+def main():
+  #if homepage is at Home.page, set homepage to "Home"
+  global homepage
+  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))
+
+  if os.path.exists("./navbar"):
     with open("./navbar", 'r') as navbarfile:
       generateNavigationBar(navbarfile.readlines())
-else:
+  else:
     print("No 'navbar' file found, there will be no navigation bar.")
 
-pagescount = 0
+  pagescount = 0
-for file in os.listdir("./"):
+  for file in os.listdir("./"):
     if file.endswith(".page"):
       with open(file, 'r') as page:
         generateLines(os.path.basename(file), page.readlines())
       pagescount += 1
-print("Generated " + str(pagescount) + " pages")
+  print("Generated " + str(pagescount) + " pages")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()