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")

blog/2012-03-18-progress-bar-in-mercurial-pushpull.markdown

@@ -4,12 +4,9 @@ comments: true
 date: 2012-03-18 02:56:00
 layout: post
 slug: progress-bar-in-mercurial-pushpull
+tags: free software, programing, revision control
 title: Progress bar in mercurial push/pull
 wordpress_id: 112432788
-categories:
-- Free software
-- Programing
-- Revision Control
 ---
 
 I admit I am a huge Git fanatic. Infact I havent used anything else for managing the code (except some checkout from svn). I was trying to build [orange](http://orange.biolab.si/), so I wasnt very happy when I realised they use [mercurial](http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Mercurial) for the revision control (I, like all my fellow programmers is a lazy person to adapt ;-) ).