Create Files From a Text File in Python

Automate creating files reading a text file containing filenames using Python.

I had a text file with blog post titles and filenames. I use a template to create blog posts. When I create only one blog post I just cp template _posts/new-post.md but now I had more than 10 posts to create.

The text file looked like this:

An awesome blog post...
an-awesome-blog-post.md

Some other blog post
some-other-blog-post.md

...

Yet another maybe 15th blog post
yet-another-maybe-15th-blog-post.md

Use shutil.copy2 to copy the template into the new file.

import shutil

with open('posts.txt', 'r') as fh:
    for line in fh:
	    if '.md' in line:
		    shutil.copy2('template', line.rstrip('\r\n'))