Page builder script

tool for generating and preparing a web page (currently an eBay auction)

Description

You are looking at a mint-in-box 2007 Python script from.. wai--what?

Sorry about that. Anyway, I was tired of writing a bunch of repetitive HTML by hand to list a bunch of stuff on eBay, so I wrote this small Python script which does two things:

• Resizes a directory full of pictures into three nice web-friendly sizes.
• Transforms a formatted text file like this:

  Ebay auction builder script
  
  #
  
  tools for generating and preparing Ebay auctions
  
  #
  
  <div>
  <P>You are looking at a...</P>
  </div>
  
  #
  
  http://lost-theory.org/python/pagegen/1.jpg
  
  #
  
  http://lost-theory.org/python/pagegen/1.jpg
  http://lost-theory.org/python/pagegen/2.jpg
  http://lost-theory.org/python/pagegen/3.jpg
            

  into an HTML page somewhat similar to the page you are looking at right now!

It doesn't do anything much fancier than that, it simply assists me with the (in my opinion) most tedious parts of putting a bunch of similar pages together.

How does it work?

You'll need PIL (for manipulating images) and Genshi (for generating XHTML) for this to work. Both easy_install quite nicely (easy_install PIL, easy_install genshi).

Download

• ebaygen.tgz (an archive of the script, template, and an example of how to use it)

• ebaygen.py (standalone script)
• template.gen.html (Genshi template used with standalone script)