#! /usr/bin/env python

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
from codecs import open
import os
import argparse

def wp2html(xml):
    xmlfile = open(xml, encoding='utf-8').read()
    soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(xmlfile)
    items = soup.rss.channel.findAll('item')

    for item in items:
        if item.fetch('wp:status')[0].contents[0] == "publish":
            title = item.title.contents[0]
            content = item.fetch('content:encoded')[0].contents[0]
            filename = item.fetch('wp:post_name')[0].contents[0]
            date = item.fetch('wp:post_date')[0].contents[0]
            author = item.fetch('dc:creator')[0].contents[0].title()
            yield (title, content, filename, date, author)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="""Transform a wordpress xml export into rst files """)

    parser.add_argument(dest='xml', help='The xml filepath')
    parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', dest='output', default='output', help='Output path')
    args = parser.parse_args() 

    for title, content, filename, date, author in wp2html(args.xml): 
        html_filename = os.path.join(args.output, filename+'.html')
        rst_filename = os.path.join(args.output, filename+'.rst')

        with open(html_filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fp:
            fp.write(content)
        os.system('pandoc --from=html --to=rst -o %s %s' % (rst_filename,
            html_filename))
        with open(rst_filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fs:
            content = fs.read()
        with open(rst_filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fs:
            header = '%s\n%s\n\n:date: %s\n:author: %s\n\n' % (title, '#' * len(title) ,date, author)
            fs.write(header+content)

#! /usr/bin/env python

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
from codecs import open
import os
import argparse

def wp2html(xml):
    xmlfile = open(xml, encoding='utf-8').read()
    soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(xmlfile)
    items = soup.rss.channel.findAll('item')

    for item in items:
        if item.fetch('wp:status')[0].contents[0] == "publish":
            title = item.title.contents[0]
            content = item.fetch('content:encoded')[0].contents[0]
            filename = item.fetch('wp:post_name')[0].contents[0]
            
            raw_date = item.fetch('wp:post_date')[0].contents[0]
            date_object = time.strptime(raw_date, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
            date = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M", date_object)
            
            author = item.fetch('dc:creator')[0].contents[0].title()
            yield (title, content, filename, date, author)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="""Transform a wordpress xml export into rst files """)

    parser.add_argument(dest='xml', help='The xml filepath')
    parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', dest='output', default='output', help='Output path')
    args = parser.parse_args() 

    for title, content, filename, date, author in wp2html(args.xml): 
        html_filename = os.path.join(args.output, filename+'.html')
        rst_filename = os.path.join(args.output, filename+'.rst')

        with open(html_filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fp:
            fp.write(content)
        os.system('pandoc --from=html --to=rst -o %s %s' % (rst_filename,
            html_filename))
        with open(rst_filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fs:
            content = fs.read()
        with open(rst_filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fs:
            header = '%s\n%s\n\n:date: %s\n:author: %s\n\n' % (title, '#' * len(title) ,date, author)
            fs.write(header+content)

Correct bug in date format importation.