User:Drinibot/KillCats.py

import re
import subprocess
rawfilename="00CFDdeletes.txt"


fi=open(rawfilename,'r')
regex=re.compile(r".*[Cc]ategory:(?P<oldcat>.*)$")
cfdregex=re.compile(r".*Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/(?P<dat>.*)$")
CFDbase="-summary:\"Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working\": "

for line in fi:
	cfdd=cfdregex.findall(line)
	if cfdd:
		print
		CFDbase="-summary:\"Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/"+cfdd[0]+"\""
		print "******* SETTING CFD page to: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/" + cfdd[0]
		print
	print 

	m=regex.findall(line)

	if m: 
		oldcat= m[0]
		print
		print "\t\t", m[0]
		print
		print "DELETING <"+oldcat+"> !!!!"
		fromarg="-from:"+str(oldcat)

		summary = CFDbase + " removing:" + oldcat 
		l=["python","category.py","-putthrottle:2", "-batch",summary, "remove", fromarg]
		subprocess.call(l)
		fromarg2=fromarg.replace(" ","_")
		l=["python","category.py", "-putthrottle:2", "-batch", summary, "remove", fromarg2]
		subprocess.call(l)

fi.close()