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date: 2011-05-14 00:37:00
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title: Welcome to ACM, Courtesy of Google
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So when I opened my mailbox today, this was watinig for me. It may not exactly fall into the type but still kind of first salary to me.

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Date: 14 May 2011 02:47
Subject: Welcome to ACM, Courtesy of Google
To: [mb.dhananjay@gmail.com](mailto:mb.dhananjay@gmail.com)


Dear Dhananjay Balan:

 Welcome to the ACM Community, courtesy of Google! An ACM Student Membership has been created for you,
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Convert from old categories to tags import sys import yaml with open(sys.argv[1]) as fp: data = fp.read() if not data.find("---") == 0: # no head print("NO YAML HEAD FOUND") sys.exit(-1) data = data[3:] head_end = data.find("---") head = data[0:head_end] data = data[head_end+3:] metadata = yaml.safe_load(head) cats = metadata.pop('categories', None) if cats != None: if type(cats) == list: tags = cats elif type(cats) == str: tags = cats.split() tags = list(map(lambda t: t.lower(), tags)) metadata["tags"] = ", ".join(tags) new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" # write it print(f"coverted: categories to tags: {tags} - {sys.argv[1]}") with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) if not metadata.get("tags", None): metadata["tags"] = "untagged" new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" print(f"untagged: {sys.argv[1]}") # write it with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) print("No changes needed") 2019-01-28 17:16:27 -05:00			`tags: free software, gsoc, thoughts`
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			`So when I opened my mailbox today, this was watinig for me. It may not exactly fall into the type but still kind of first salary to me.`

			`---------- Forwarded message ----------`
			`From: **** <[acmhelp@acm.org](mailto:acmhelp@acm.org)>`
			`Date: 14 May 2011 02:47`
			`Subject: Welcome to ACM, Courtesy of Google`
			`To: [mb.dhananjay@gmail.com](mailto:mb.dhananjay@gmail.com)`


			`Dear Dhananjay Balan:`

			`Welcome to the ACM Community, courtesy of Google! An ACM Student Membership has been created for you,`