Meta:Tools/Chat/CleanChat.py

What does it do

This script formats my Xchat logs into a readable form we can paste into http://pasteall.org to report chatlogs in talk pages under SundayMeetingAgenda

It transfoms this:

Feb 22 16:01:02 *	kaito has changed the topic to: meeting time!
Feb 22 16:01:27 <kaito>	we get andy visiting, then it has to be totally clean!
Feb 22 16:01:48 <DingTo>	:-D
Feb 22 16:01:56 <kaito>	you know, german's preoccupation with order :)
Feb 22 16:03:05 <kaito>	so! usual topics? 1) current projects 2) 2.5 + wintercamp 3) 2.49 yes/no?
Feb 22 16:03:16 <mal_CanDo>	3)  2.49 or 2.48b?
Feb 22 16:03:28 <kaito>	or whatever we call it :)

into this:

             *	kaito has changed the topic to: meeting time!
       <kaito>	we get andy visiting, then it has to be totally clean!
      <DingTo>	:-D
       <kaito>	you know, german's preoccupation with order :)
       <kaito>	so! usual topics? 1) current projects 2) 2.5 + wintercamp 3) 2.49 yes/no?
   <mal_CanDo>	3)  2.49 or 2.48b?
       <kaito>	or whatever we call it :)

To use it, set DATE to the length of the date of your logs (depends probably from your IRC client, in XChat as you can see above I have a date 16 characters long).

How to execute it

To run it:

• give the file executable permissions:

$ chmod u+x cleanchat.py

• call it with the name of the chatlog as first argument, for example:

$ cleanchat.py 2009-02-22nd.log

In this case it will output a file called "2009-02-22nd_clean.log" under the same folder  of "2009-02-22nd.log"

The script

#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import division
import math,sys

chatlog=sys.argv[1]

f=open(chatlog,'r')
f2=open(chatlog.split('.')[0]+'_clean.log','w')
chat=f.readlines()

"""
With Xchat I use DATE=16
Example:
Feb 22 17:12:24 <theeth>	xxxxxx
"""

DATE=16
PASTEALL_WIDTH=100

maxlength=0
for line in chat:
	print line.split()
	if line[DATE:][0]=='<':
		name_l=line[DATE:].index('>')
		if name_l>maxlength: maxlength=name_l

for line in chat:
	line=line[DATE:-1]
	L=line[:PASTEALL_WIDTH]
	if L[0]=='<':
		name_l=L.index('>')
		ls=L.split('>')
		newline=' '*(maxlength-name_l)+ls[0]+'>'+'>'.join(ls[1:])
	if L[0]=='*':
		ls=L.split()
		newline=' '*maxlength+'*\t'+' '.join(ls[1:])
	newline+='\n'
	f2.write(newline)
	if len(line)>PASTEALL_WIDTH:
		repeat=int(math.ceil(len(line)/(PASTEALL_WIDTH-maxlength)))
		for i in range(1,repeat):
			f2.write(' '*maxlength+'\t'+line[i*PASTEALL_WIDTH:(i+1)*PASTEALL_WIDTH]+'\n')
f2.close()
f.close()