devscripts/make_readme.py in place of all that sedding, that has porting problems
[youtube-dl] / devscripts / make_readme.py
1 import sys
2 import re
3
4 helptext = sys.stdin.read()
5
6 f = open('README.md')
7 oldreadme = f.read()
8 f.close()
9
10 header = oldreadme[:oldreadme.index('# OPTIONS')]
11 footer = oldreadme[oldreadme.index('# CONFIGURATION'):]
12
13 options = helptext[helptext.index('  General Options:')+19:]
14 options = re.sub(r'^  (\w.+)$', r'## \1', options, flags=re.M)
15 options = '# OPTIONS\n' + options + '\n'
16
17 f = open('README.md', 'w')
18 f.write(header)
19 f.write(options)
20 f.write(footer)
21 f.close()