Story Conversion

      

import os
import re

stories = os.listdir('original')


for file_name in stories: 

    html_lines = []
    txt_lines = []

    with open('original/' + file_name, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:

        #Split txt file into paragraphs
        paragraphs = f.read().splitlines()

        #Remove whitespace indents
        #lines = [line.lstrip() for line in paragraphs]
        lines = [re.sub(r'^[\ufeff\s]+', '', line) for line in paragraphs]

        #Remove empty lines
        while("" in lines):
            lines.remove("")

        #FurAffinity
        for k in lines:
            #Bold
            k = re.sub(r'\*\*(.*?)\*\*', r'[b]\1[/b]', k)
    
            #Italics
            k = re.sub(r'\*(.*?)\*', r'[i]\1[/i]', k)

            k.replace("[i] [/i]", '* *')

            #Add multi-space indent before each line
            txt_lines.append('        ' + k)

            #Add gap between each item in list
            txt_lines.append('\n\n')

            

        #HTML
        for i in lines:
            #Bold
            i = re.sub(r'\*\*(.*?)\*\*', r'\1', i)
            
    
            #Italics
            i = re.sub(r'\*(.*?)\*', r'\1', i)

            i = re.sub(' ', '* *', i)

            html_lines.append('
' + i + '
\n')


    f.close

    try:
        with open('fa/' + file_name, 'x', encoding='utf-8') as h:
            print('Created FA: ' + file_name)

        #Write to txt
        with open('fa/' + file_name, 'a', encoding='utf-8') as h:
            for n in txt_lines:
                h.write(n)

        with open('html/' + file_name, 'x', encoding='utf-8') as g:
            print('Created HTML: ' + file_name)
        
        #Write to html
        with open('html/' + file_name, 'a', encoding='utf-8') as g:
            
            for l in html_lines:
                g.write(l)

            print('Saved: ' + file_name)

    except FileExistsError:
        print('Exists: ' + file_name)


        
    

Directory with .py file has three subdirectories: "original" where the original txt file goes, "html" where the html formatted txt file is saved, "fa" where the furaffinity formatted txt file is saved