It doesn't support any magical option of Signify (alignment, variable replacement). However, current lab feature has limitation to 96 chars in signature. This definitively sucks.
Published under the WTFPL.
import lxml.etree as et
import sys
import StringIO
import codecs
# DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
# Version 2, December 2004
#
# Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
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# 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
# take first command line parameter as input file
f = codecs.open( sys.argv[1], "r", "utf-8" )
signs = []
current_signature = ""
preamble = """
<rss version="0.91">
<channel>
<title>Signify converted signatures</title>
<language>en-us</language>
</channel>
</rss>
"""
tree = et.parse(StringIO.StringIO(preamble))
channelNode = tree.xpath('/rss/channel')[0]
count = 0
for line in f:
line = line.rstrip()
if line.find("#") == 0:
line = line
# do nothing
elif line.find('%') == 0:
if len(current_signature) > 0:
signs.append(current_signature)
item = et.Element("item")
title = et.Element("title")
title.text = current_signature
item.append(title)
channelNode.append(item)
count += 1
current_signature = ""
else:
current_signature += line + "
"
print et.tostring(tree, xml_declaration=True, encoding="utf-8")
