Dirty Python for Quick Link Creation
As the sub-heading to this site suggests this maybe a place to find poor python! I was updating my photography galleries and in doing so creating ox-hugo clickable image links so that the main page shows the thumbnail and a click brings up the main image. Anyway its a pain to go C-c C-l for each and every file so i cobbled together a dirty and quick python script to trawl a directory and create a text file with the necesary ox-hugo links for clickable images.
The ox-hugo format needed for creating hyperlinked pictures has to resemble;
text code snippet start
[[file:/img/lifedeath/LifeDeath_002.jpg][file:/img/lifedeath/LifeDeath_002-thumb.jpg]]text code snippet end
My files are are saved as
text code snippet start
Name Size Type Modified Attr
LifeDeath_001.jpg 460 KB JPEG image 13/01/2019 18:31-------
LifeDeath_001-thumb.jpg 11.5 KB JPEG image 13/01/2019 18:31-------
LifeDeath_002.jpg 464 KB JPEG image 13/01/2019 18:31-------
LifeDeath_002-thumb.jpg 11.8 KB JPEG image 13/01/2019 18:31-------
..
..text code snippet end
The following poor python does the job of creating the links
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import glob
#oxhugo link format
# [[file:/img/colour/C_ART_0052.jpg][file:/img/colour/C_ART_0052-thumb.jpg]]
output_file = open("link.txt","a")
one = "[[file:/img/lifedeath/"
three = "][file:/img/lifedeath/"
four = "]] "
files = []
for file in glob.glob("*.jpg"):
files.append(file)
i = thumb = 0
main = 1
while i < len(files):
try:
complete = one + files[main] + three + files[thumb] + four + "\n"
except IndexError:
print("finished")
break
output_file.write(complete)
main = main + 2
thumb = thumb + 2python code snippet end
The resulting output gives me exactly what i needed.