--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/legacy/management/commands/import_old_news.py	Sat May 05 17:10:48 2012 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+"""
+import_old_news.py - For importing news stories from SG101 1.0 as csv files.
+"""
+from __future__ import with_statement
+import csv
+import optparse
+import sys
+from datetime import datetime
+
+from django.core.management.base import LabelCommand, CommandError
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+
+from news.models import Category, Story
+from legacy.phpbb import unescape
+import legacy.data
+
+
+class Command(LabelCommand):
+    args = '<filename filename ...>'
+    help = 'Imports news stories from the old database in CSV format'
+    option_list = LabelCommand.option_list + (
+        optparse.make_option("-p", "--progress", action="store_true",
+            help="Output a . after every 20 stories to show progress"),
+    )
+
+    def handle_label(self, filename, **options):
+        """
+        Process each line in the CSV file given by filename by
+        creating a new story.
+
+        """
+        self.show_progress = options.get('progress')
+        self.users = {}
+
+        # Create a mapping from the old database's topics to our
+        # Categories.
+        self.topics = {}
+        try:
+            self.topics[2] = Category.objects.get(slug='site-news')
+            self.topics[3] = Category.objects.get(slug='bands')
+            self.topics[4] = Category.objects.get(slug='show-announcements')
+            self.topics[5] = Category.objects.get(slug='show-reports')
+            self.topics[6] = Category.objects.get(slug='gear')
+            self.topics[7] = Category.objects.get(slug='reviews')
+            self.topics[8] = Category.objects.get(slug='surf-scene-news')
+            self.topics[9] = Category.objects.get(slug='articles')
+            self.topics[10] = Category.objects.get(slug='interviews')
+            self.topics[11] = Category.objects.get(slug='tablature')
+            self.topics[12] = Category.objects.get(slug='featured-videos')
+        except Category.DoesNotExist:
+            sys.exit("Category does not exist; check topic mapping.")
+
+        try:
+            with open(filename, "rb") as f:
+                self.reader = csv.DictReader(f)
+                num_rows = 0
+                try:
+                    for row in self.reader:
+                        self.process_row(row)
+                        num_rows += 1
+                        if self.show_progress and num_rows % 20 == 0:
+                            sys.stdout.write('.')
+                            sys.stdout.flush()
+                except csv.Error, e:
+                    raise CommandError("CSV error: %s %s %s" % (
+                        filename, self.reader.line_num, e))
+
+                print
+
+        except IOError:
+            raise CommandError("Could not open file: %s" % filename)
+
+    def process_row(self, row):
+        """
+        Process one row from the CSV file: create a Story object for
+        the row and save it in the database.
+
+        """
+        row = dict((k, v if v != 'NULL' else '') for k, v in row.iteritems())
+
+        try:
+            submitter = self._get_user(row['informant'])
+        except User.DoesNotExist:
+            print "Could not find user %s for story %s; skipping." % (
+                    row['informant'], row['sid'])
+            return
+
+        story = Story(id=int(row['sid']),
+                title=unescape(row['title'].decode('latin-1')),
+                submitter=submitter,
+                category=self.topics[int(row['topic'])],
+                short_text=row['hometext'].decode('latin-1'),
+                long_text=row['bodytext'].decode('latin-1'),
+                date_submitted=datetime.strptime(row['time'], "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
+                allow_comments=True)
+
+        story.save()
+
+    def _get_user(self, username):
+        """
+        Returns the user object with the given username.
+        Throws User.DoesNotExist if not found.
+
+        """
+        try:
+            return self.users[username]
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
+        try:
+            user = User.objects.get(username=username)
+        except User.DoesNotExist:
+            old_name = username.lower()
+            try:
+                user = User.objects.get(
+                        username=legacy.data.KNOWN_USERNAME_CHANGES[old_name])
+            except KeyError:
+                raise User.DoesNotExist
+
+        self.users[username] = user
+        return user