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+#! /usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright (C) 2008 James D. Simmons
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+
+import getopt
+import sys
+
+# This is a script to take the file GUTINDEX.AUS, the offline book catalog of Project Gutenberg Australia, 
+# and reformat it for use by Read Etexts.  After the file ausoutput.txt is created it should be combined 
+# with the output of gutextract.py and sorted to create bookcatalog.txt.
+
+def main(file_path):
+
+    gut_file = open(file_path,"r")
+    out = open("ausoutput.txt", 'w')
+    
+    while gut_file:
+        line = gut_file.readline()
+        if not line:
+            break
+        if len(line) > 78:
+            if line[77].isdigit() and line.find("Audio:") < 0 and line[59] == '[':
+                path = 'PGA/ebooks' + line[6:8] + '/' + line[60:66] + '1.zip'
+                line = line[9:59]
+                line = line.rstrip()
+                if line.find(', by ') > -1:
+                    line = line.replace(', by ', '|')
+                else:
+                    comma_pos = line.rfind(',')
+                    if comma_pos > -1:
+                        line = line[0:comma_pos] + '|' + line[comma_pos+1:len(line)].lstrip()
+                    else:
+                        line = line + '| '
+                out.write(line + '|' + path + '\n')
+    gut_file.close()
+    out.close()
+    print "All done!"
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    try:
+        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "")
+        main(args[0])
+    except getopt.error, msg:
+        print msg
+        print "This program has no options"
+        sys.exit(2)