qutebrowser/scripts/generate_authors.py

#!/usr/bin/python

# vim: ft=python fileencoding=utf-8 sts=4 sw=4 et:

# Copyright 2014 Florian Bruhin (The Compiler) <mail@qutebrowser.org>
#
# This file is part of qutebrowser.
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"""Re-generate the AUTHORS file based on the commits made."""

import subprocess
from collections import Counter

commits = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'log', '--format=%aN'])
cnt = Counter(commits.decode('utf-8').splitlines())

with open('AUTHORS', 'w', newline='\n', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    f.write("Contributors, sorted by the number of commits in descending "
            "order:\n\n")
    for author in sorted(cnt, key=lambda k: cnt[k]):
        f.write(author)
    f.write('\n')