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Adding a script I had to write on the fly to filter out posts from the posts csv file that had no parent topics. MyISAM let me get away with that, but InnoDB won't.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:28:22 +0000
parents ed6202fb08b6
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"""
This program generates the data used by the timezone.js Javascript.
This data is used to create the 2 dropdown select boxes for timezones.
"""
import pytz
from pprint import pprint

def format_locations(locs):
    ss = ["[%s]" % ", ".join(["'%s'" % l for l in loc]) for loc in locs]
    return "%s" % ",\n".join(ss)

# get a list of areas

zones = [z.split('/') for z in pytz.common_timezones]
areas = set([zone[0] for zone in zones if len(zone) > 1])
areas = list(areas)
areas.sort()

locations = dict([(area, []) for area in areas])

#pprint(locations)

for zone in pytz.common_timezones:
    if zone.count('/') == 0:
        continue
    area, loc = zone.split('/', 1)
    if area in locations:
        locations[area].append(loc.replace('_', ' '))

#pprint(locations)

for area in locations.iterkeys():
    locations[area].sort()

locs = []
for area in areas:
    locs.append(locations[area])

#pprint(locs)

default_area = areas.index('US')
default_location = locs[default_area].index('Pacific')

print """\
var gcalTzInfo = {
    areas: [%s],
    locations: [%s],
    default_area: %s,
    default_location: %s
};
""" % (", ".join(["'%s'" % area for area in areas]), 
        format_locations(locs),
        default_area,
        default_location,
        )