Continuing working on blog engine

devblog/build_blog.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Here starts the main text ...
 import glob
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from collections import defaultdict
-from dateutil import parser as dateparser
+from dateutils import parser as dateparser
 from datetime import datetime
 from os.path import abspath, dirname, join as pathjoin, sep
 import mistletoe
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ TEMPLATE_DIR = pathjoin(SOURCE_DIR, "templates")
 BLOG_TEMPLATE = "blog.html"
 POST_TEMPLATE = "post.html"
 
+
 @dataclass
 class Post:
     title: str
@@ -52,8 +53,8 @@ def md2html():
     blog_template = jinja_env.get_template(BLOG_TEMPLATE)
     post_template = jinja_env.get_template(POST_TEMPLATE)
 
-    calendar = defaultdict(dict)
-    posts = {}
+    calendar = defaultdict(list)
+    posts = []
 
     for file_path in glob.glob(pathjoin(SOURCE_DIR, "*.md")):
         # parse/check if file is on form YY-MM-DD-Blog-Name.md
@@ -89,9 +90,6 @@ def md2html():
                 elif line.startswith("images"):
                     image_refs = line
 
-        # unique id for post
-        post_id = hash(str(date.toordinal()) + title)
-
         markdown_post = "\n".join(lines)
         # convert markdown to html
         html_post = mistletoe.markdown(markdown_post)
@@ -105,12 +103,26 @@ def md2html():
         }
         html_page = post_template.render(context)
 
-        posts[post_id] = html_page
-        calendar[date.year][post_id]
+        # store
+        post = Post(title=title, date=date, image_refs=image_refs, html=html_page)
+        posts.append(post)
+        calendar[date.year].append(post)
 
     # we have all posts, now insert them into the blog
 
+    posts = sorted(posts, key=lambda pst: -pst.date.toordinal())
+    for year in calendar:
+        calendar[year] = sorted(calendar[year], key=lambda pst: -pst.date.toordinal())
+
+    context = {
+        posts: posts,
+        calendar: calendar
+    }
+
+    html_page = blog_template.render(context)
+
+    return html_page
 
 
-
-
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    print(md2html())

devblog/source/2021-11-14.md

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# A way to do things
-
-This is a test blog page for using markdown to write
-[Evennia](https://www.evennia.com) devblog posts.
-
-## Starting out
-
-I'm experimenting with a new section of the docs containing these
-blog posts (obviously the blogs are CC anyway).

devblog/source/templates/blog.html

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
         <script src="javascripts/newsfeed.js">
         </script>
         <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=no">
-        <meta name="description" content="Evennia is a modern Python library and server for creating text-based        multi-player games and virtual worlds (also known as MUD, MUSH, MU, MUX, MUCK, etc).        While Evennia handles all the necessary things every online game needs, like database and         networking, you create the game of your dreams by writing normal Python modules.">
+        <meta name="description" content="Evennia is a modern Python library and server for creating text-based        multi-player games and virtual worlds (also known as MUD, MUSH, MU, MUX, MUCK, etc). While Evennia handles all the necessary things every online game needs, like database and networking, you create the game of your dreams by writing normal Python modules.">
         <!--[if lt IE 9]>
             <script src="//html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js">
             </script>