import markdown, string, xmlrpclib
#http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Installation

xmlrpcurl = "http://www.example.com/blog/xmlrpc.php"
username = "username" 
password = "password"
textfile = open('30DaysBlogPost.txt','r')

title = ""
tags = []

while True:
	optionline = textfile.readline()
	if string.strip(optionline) == '%%%':
		break;
	if string.find(optionline, "Title:") == 0:
		title = string.strip(optionline[6:])
	if string.find(optionline, "Tags:") == 0:
		tags = string.split(string.strip(optionline[5:]),",")
		newtaglist = []
		for tag in tags:
			newtaglist.append(string.strip(tag))
		tags = list(newtaglist)

postbody = textfile.read()
textfile.close()

#print postbody
body = markdown.markdown(postbody)


# now we post to the blog

server = xmlrpclib.Server(xmlrpcurl)

postdict = {}
postdict['title'] = title
postdict['description'] = body
postdict['mt_keywords'] = tags

returnstring = server.metaWeblog.newPost(1,username, password,postdict,1) #change the last variable to 0 to save as a post draft instead of publishing.
#returnstring = server.metaWeblog.getRecentPosts(1,username,password,3)
#returnstring = server.wp.getUsersBlogs(username,password)

print returnstring