#!/usr/bin/env python import os import sys # assembles a list of directories containing cheatsheets def cheat_directories(): default_directories = [os.path.expanduser('~/.cheat')] try: import cheatsheets default_directories.append(cheatsheets.cheat_dir) except ImportError: pass default = [ default_dir for default_dir in default_directories if os.path.isdir(default_dir) ] if 'CHEATPATH' in os.environ and os.environ['CHEATPATH']: return [ path for path in os.environ['CHEATPATH'].split(os.pathsep)\ if os.path.isdir(path) ] + default else: return default # assembles a dictionary of cheatsheets found in the above directories def cheat_files(cheat_directories): cheats = {} for cheat_dir in reversed(cheat_directories): cheats.update(dict([ (cheat, cheat_dir)\ for cheat in os.listdir(cheat_dir) if not cheat.startswith('.')])) return cheats def main(): """MAIN""" # assemble a keyphrase out of all params passed to the script keyphrase = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]) cheat_dirs = cheat_directories() # verify that we have at least one cheat directory if not cheat_dirs: print >> sys.stderr, \ 'The ~/.cheat dir does not exist or the CHEATPATH var is not set.' exit() # list the files in the ~/.cheat directory cheatsheets = cheat_files(cheat_dirs) # print help if requested if keyphrase.lower() in ['', 'cheat', 'help', '-h', '-help', '--help']: print "Usage: cheat [keyphrase]\n" print "Available keyphrases:" max_command = max([ len(x) for x in cheatsheets.keys() ]) + 3 print '\n'.join(sorted([ '%s [%s]' % (key.ljust(max_command), value)\ for key, value in cheatsheets.items() ])) exit() # print the cheatsheet if it exists if keyphrase in cheatsheets: with open (os.path.join(cheatsheets[keyphrase], keyphrase), 'r')\ as cheatsheet: print cheatsheet.read() # if it does not, say so else: print 'No cheatsheet found for %s.' % keyphrase if __name__ == '__main__': main()