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add a email-esque quoting script
author | Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com> |
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date | Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:18:01 -0700 |
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children | a075f8a93183 |
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#!/usr/bin/env python """ quote text """ import sys import textwrap from subprocess import check_output as call def quote(text, prefix='> ', width=69): """ returns quoted text - prefix: string to prepend quote - width: final width (emacs wraps at 70) """ width -= len(prefix) # subtract the prefix text = text.strip() # remove surrounding whitespace lines = [] for line in text.splitlines(): line = line.strip() lines.extend(textwrap.wrap(line, width)) return '\n'.join(['%s%s' % (prefix, line) for line in lines]) def main(args=sys.argv[1:]): text = sys.stdin.read() sys.stdout.write(quote(text)) if __name__ == '__main__': main()