--- a/.bashrc	Sat May 11 04:16:56 2013 -0700
+++ b/.bashrc	Sat May 11 06:50:40 2013 -0700
@@ -264,6 +264,33 @@
     done
 }
 
+recreate-venv() {
+    # recreate a virtualenv
+    VIRTUALENV="virtualenv.py"
+    for i in $@
+    do
+        ${VIRTUALENV} --clear "${i}"
+
+        SRCDIR="${i}"/src
+        if [ -d "${SRCDIR}" ]
+        then
+            . "${i}/bin/activate"
+            OLDPWD=${PWD}
+            cd "${SRCDIR}"
+            for j in *
+            do
+                if [ -e "${j}"/setup.py ]
+                then
+                    cd "${j}"
+                    python setup.py develop
+                    cd ..
+                fi
+            done
+            cd "${OLDPWD}"
+        fi
+    done
+}
+
 ### functions for version control systems
 
 svndance(){

--- a/python/html2flux.py	Sat May 11 04:16:56 2013 -0700
+++ b/python/html2flux.py	Sat May 11 06:50:40 2013 -0700
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 executables = set([i.rsplit('/', 1)[-1] for i in lsex() ])
 
 def readmenu(dl, output, top=True):
+    """read menu from an <dl> tag"""
+    # TODO: probably don't really need lxml
 
     menu_items = []
     name = None # menu name
@@ -57,8 +59,13 @@
     """
     - output: file-like object for writing
     """
+
+    # print [submenu] tag for this menu
     name = name or ''
-    print >> output, '[submenu] (%s)' % name
+    if not top:
+        print >> output, '[submenu] (%s)' % name
+
+    # print menu items
     for name, item in menu:
         if isinstance(item, basestring):
             # command
@@ -66,6 +73,8 @@
         else:
             # submenu
             printflux(name, item, output, top=False)
+
+    # print end of this submenu
     if not top:
         print >> output, '[end]'