You can add a draft by 'draft add [name]' now and receive a simple template with current time and date and UNIX username as author. At this Time emacs is hardcoded as editor.

Also I expanded the 'blog update' program logic.

picoblogger/main.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python3
 
-import os,re,subprocess
+import os,re,time,getpass,subprocess
 from string import Template
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
 
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ print(args)
 # Global Constants #
 ####################
 
+# logged in user
+user = getpass.getuser()
+
 # set path to blog
 try:
     blog_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(vars(args)['blog_dir']))
@@ -68,6 +71,15 @@ except:
 
 (pbconf,blogconf,l10nconf) = (False,False,False)
 
+# path to blog's templates
+tplDir = os.path.join(blog_dir,"templates")
+
+# paths to configs
+pbconfpath = os.path.join("/","etc","picoblogger","pb.conf") # global config
+blogconfpath = os.path.join(blog_dir,"pb.conf") # local config
+
+
+
 ##################
 # Help Functions #
 ##################
@@ -87,40 +99,42 @@ def parse_conf(path):
     return aVars
 
 
+
 ######################
 # Parse Config Files #
 ######################
 
-pbconfpath = os.path.join("/","etc","picoblogger","pb.conf")
 try:
     if os.path.isfile(pbconfpath):
         pbconf = parse_conf(pbconfpath)
 except:
-    print("Couldn't parse systems global picoblogger configuration (/etc/picoblogger/pb.conf).")
+    print("Couldn't parse systems global picoblogger configuration (%s)."%pbconfpath)
     raise
 
-blogconfpath = os.path.join(blog_dir,"pb.conf")
+
 try:
     if os.path.isfile(blogconfpath):
         blogconf = parse_conf(blogconfpath)
 
 except:
-    print("Couldn't parse blog's local configuration ([blog-dir]/pb.conf).")
+    print("Couldn't parse blog's local configuration (%s)."%blogconfpath)
     raise
 
-l10nconfpath = os.path.join(blog_dir,"l10n",blogconf['BLOG_LANG'],"static.conf")
+l10nconfpath = os.path.join(blog_dir,"l10n",blogconf['BLOG_LANG'],"static.conf") # localization file
 try:
     if os.path.isfile(l10nconfpath):
         l10nconf = parse_conf(l10nconfpath)
-        print(l10nconf)
 except:
-    print("Couldn't parse localization file ([blog-dir]/l10n/['BLOG_LANG']/static.conf).")
+    print("Couldn't parse localization file (%s)."%l10nconfpath)
     raise
 
 
-tplDir = os.path.join(blog_dir,"templates")
+########################
+# Templating functions #
+########################
     
 def update_blog(subsection):
+    # Joins config defined variables into templates
     
     tplIndex = os.path.join(tplDir,"index.htm")
     blogIndex = os.path.join(blog_dir,"index.html")
@@ -152,6 +166,10 @@ def update_blog(subsection):
         print(tmpIndex, file=f)
 
         
+##################
+# Main Functions #
+##################
+
 # blog functions
 
 if vars(args)['target'] == 'blog':
@@ -160,8 +178,20 @@ if vars(args)['target'] == 'blog':
     ## update subsections or whole blog
 
     if vars(args)['action'] == 'update':
-        print("Updating your block.")
+
+        if vars(args)['subsection'] in ('recent','all'):
+            pass
+
+        if vars(args)['subsection'] in ('archive','all'):
+            pass
+
+        if vars(args)['subsection'] in ('feed','all'):
+            pass
+        
+        # Joining all templates
         update_blog(vars(args)['subsection'])
+        print("Updated your blog.")        
+
 
 
     ## add a new blog at -d blog-directory
@@ -178,7 +208,18 @@ if vars(args)['target'] == 'draft':
     ## add new draft
 
     if vars(args)['action'] == 'add':
-        subprocess.call(["emacs",os.path.join(blog_dir,"templates/article.txt")])
+        draft = os.path.join(blog_dir,"drafts",vars(args)['name'] + ".txt")
+        tpl = os.path.join(tplDir,"article.tpl")
+        sTpl = open(tpl).read()
+        subs = {"DATE" : time.strftime("%x",time.localtime()), "TIME" : time.strftime("%X",time.localtime()),
+                "AUTHOR" : user
+                }
+        
+        sTpl = Template(sTpl).safe_substitute(subs)
+        with open(draft,"w", encoding=l10nconf['BLOG_CHARSET']) as f:
+            print(sTpl, file=f)
+        
+        subprocess.call(["emacs", "nw", draft])
 
 
     ## list drafts