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-rwxr-xr-xmake-man-index.py21
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/make-man-index.py b/make-man-index.py
index 1333521a58..e09d62a5e8 100755
--- a/make-man-index.py
+++ b/make-man-index.py
@@ -1,19 +1,16 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python
from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse, Element, SubElement, tostring
-import sys
+from sys import argv, stdout
index = {}
-for p in sys.argv[1:]:
+for p in argv[1:]:
t = parse(p)
- section = t.find('./refmeta/manvolnum').text;
+ section = t.find('./refmeta/manvolnum').text
+ purpose = t.find('./refnamediv/refpurpose').text
for f in t.findall('./refnamediv/refname'):
- index[f.text] = (p, section)
-
-k = index.keys()
-k.sort(key = str.lower)
-
+ index[f.text] = (p, section, purpose)
html = Element('html')
@@ -26,9 +23,8 @@ h1 = SubElement(body, 'h1')
h1.text = 'Manual Page Index'
letter = None
-
-for n in k:
- path, section = index[n]
+for n in sorted(index.keys(), key = str.lower):
+ path, section, purpose = index[n]
if path.endswith('.xml'):
path = path[:-4] + ".html"
@@ -51,5 +47,6 @@ for n in k:
a = SubElement(li, 'a');
a.set('href', path)
a.text = n + '(' + section + ')'
+ a.tail = ' -- ' + purpose
-print tostring(html)
+stdout.write(tostring(html))