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+#!/usr/bin/python
+"""
+An experiment with comictaggerlib
+"""
+
+import sys
+import os
+import platform
+import locale
+import codecs
+
+sys.path += ".." + os.pathsep
+
+from comictaggerlib.comicarchive import *
+from comictaggerlib.settings import *
+from comictaggerlib.issuestring import *
+
+
+#---------------------------------------
+def init_output( ):
+
+	# try to make stdout encodings happy for unicode printing
+	if platform.system() == "Darwin":
+		preferred_encoding = "utf-8"
+	else:
+		preferred_encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+	sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(preferred_encoding)(sys.stdout)
+	sys.stderr = codecs.getwriter(preferred_encoding)(sys.stderr)
+
+#--------------------------------------
+def get_recursive_filelist( pathlist ):
+	filelist = []
+	for p in pathlist:
+		# if path is a folder, walk it recursivly, and all files underneath
+		if type(p) == str:
+			#make sure string is unicode
+			filename_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+			p = p.decode(filename_encoding, 'replace')
+		
+		if os.path.isdir( unicode(p)):
+			for root,dirs,files in os.walk( unicode(p) ):
+				for f in files:
+					filelist.append(os.path.join(root,unicode(f)))
+		else:
+			filelist.append(unicode(p))
+	
+	return filelist
+#--------------------------------------
+
+
+def main():
+	init_output()
+	settings = ComicTaggerSettings()
+	
+	filelist = get_recursive_filelist( sys.argv )
+	
+	#first read in CIX metadata from all files
+	metadata_list = []	
+	for filename in filelist:
+		ca = ComicArchive(filename, settings )
+		metadata_list.append((filename, ca.readCIX()))
+
+	# now, figure out column widths	
+	w0 = 4
+	w1 = 4
+	for filename,md in metadata_list: 
+		if not md.isEmpty:
+			w0 = max( len((os.path.split(filename)[1])), w0)
+			if md.series is not None:
+				w1 = max( len(md.series), w1)
+	w0 += 2
+	
+	# build a format string
+	fmt_str = "{0:" + str(w0) + "} {1:" + str(w1) + "} #{2:6} ({3})"
+
+	# now sort the list by year
+	metadata_list.sort(key=lambda x: IssueString(x[1].issue).asString(3), reverse=False)
+	metadata_list.sort(key=lambda x: str(x[1].series)+str(x[1].year), reverse=False)
+	#metadata_list.sort(key=lambda x: x[1].series, reverse=False)
+	
+	# now print
+	for filename,md in metadata_list:
+		if not md.isEmpty:
+			print fmt_str.format(os.path.split(filename)[1]+":", md.series, md.issue, md.year)
+			"""
+			if len(md.pages) != 0:
+				for p in md.pages:
+					if p.has_key('Type') and p['Type'] in [ 'Deleted', 'Advertisment' ]:
+						print "-------Has pages to remove"
+			"""
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+	main()