Working on archive with per month list of articles and month shortcuts in sidebar. Trying to clean the code a bit up and to reuse more code.

picoblogger/main.py

@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ def recent_articles(amount):
 
 def archive_articles():
     articles = [parse_article(os.path.join(articleDir,item)) for item in os.listdir(articleDir) if not "~" in item]
-#    print(articles)
+
     cMonth = timestamp.tm_mon
     cYear = timestamp.tm_year
     # sort articles by date of creation into archive which is structured by subfolders of year and month
@@ -314,22 +314,60 @@ def list_of_months():
             monthDir = os.path.join(yearDir,month)
             tMonth = time.strptime(month+"/"+year,"%m/%Y")
             sMonth = time.strftime("%B",tMonth)
-            dArchives[year].append(sMonth)
-    print(dArchives)
+            dArchives[year].append(month)#sMonth)
     return dArchives
 
+def list_articles(folder):
+    artDir = folder
+    joined_html = ""
+    articles_dict = {}
+    for name in [os.path.splitext(item)[0] for item in os.listdir(artDir) if not "~" in item]:
+        article = (parse_article(os.path.join(artDir, name + ".txt")))
+        # Bring articles into chronological order
+        t = time.mktime(time.strptime(article['DATE'] + " " + article['TIME'], "%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S"))
+        articles_dict[str(t)] = article
+    dates_of_creation = [float(value) for value in articles_dict.keys()]
+    dates_of_creation.sort(key=None,reverse=True)
+    for i in range(0, len(dates_of_creation)):
+
+        joined_html += recent_to_html(articles_dict[str(time.strftime(str(dates_of_creation[i])))])
+    
+    return joined_html
+
+    
+
+def months_to_html(archived_months):
+    html = "<ul>"
+    for year in archived_months:
+        html += "<li>"+str(year)+"</li>"
+        html += "<ul>"
+        for month in archived_months[year]:
+            html += "<li>"+str(month)+"</li>"
+        html += "</ul>"
+    html += "</ul>"
+    return html
+        
+            
+
+def list_archive(archived_months):
+    html = ""
+    for year in archived_months:
+        html += "<h2>"+str(year)+"</h2>"
+        for month in archived_months[year]:
+            html += "<h3>"+str(month)+"</h3>"
+            html += list_articles(os.path.join(archiveDir,str(year),str(month)))
+    html += ""
+    return html
 
-def list_articles():
-    pass
             
     
 def update_blog(subsection):
     """ Joins config defined variables into templates"""
     
-    if subsection == "recent":
+    if subsection in ("recent","all"):
         tplIndex = os.path.join(tplDir,"index.htm")
         blogIndex = os.path.join(blog_dir,"index.html")
-    elif subsection == "archive":
+    elif subsection in ("archive"):
         tplIndex = os.path.join(tplDir,"index.htm")
         blogIndex = os.path.join(blog_dir,"archive.html")
 
@@ -340,7 +378,7 @@ def update_blog(subsection):
     if subsection == "recent":    
         sMAIN = join_articles()
     elif subsection == "archive":
-        sMAIN = list_articles()
+        sMAIN = list_archive(list_of_months())
     sASIDE = open(os.path.join(tplDir,"aside.htm")).read()
     
     sRECENT = open(os.path.join(tplDir,"recent.htm")).read()
@@ -366,10 +404,10 @@ def update_blog(subsection):
         sRECENT = Template(sRECENT).safe_substitute(pbconf)
         sFOOTER = Template(sFOOTER).safe_substitute(pbconf)
 
-    if subsection == "recent":    
+    if subsection in ("recent","all"):    
         sRECENT = Template(sRECENT).safe_substitute({"RECENT_ARTICLES":recent_articles(amountRecent)})
     elif subsection == "archive":
-        sRECENT = Template(sRECENT).safe_substitute({"RECENT_ARTICLES":list_of_months()})
+        sRECENT = Template(sRECENT).safe_substitute({"RECENT_ARTICLES":months_to_html(list_of_months())})
     sASIDE = Template(sASIDE).safe_substitute({"ASIDE_RECENT":sRECENT, "ASIDE_CONTACT":sCONTACT})
 
     tplSub = {