Split your tiresome EE member xml files

member_xml.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

import os
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup

def brew(path):
    """ Creates the brew, extracts the members """
    doc = open(path, 'r')
    brew = BeautifulStoneSoup(doc)

    return brew.findAll('member')

def split(c, n):
    """ Yield successive n-sized splits from c. """
    for i in xrange(0, len(c), n):
        yield c[i:i+n]

if __name__ == '__main__':
    """ No more soup, just XML """
    cwd = os.getcwd()

    members = brew('%s/../setup/member_xml.xml' % (cwd))
    groups = split(members, 500) # 500 means fewer crapouts

    for group in enumerate(groups):
        path = '%s/group_%s.xml' % (cwd, group[0])
        output = '<members>%s</members>' % (''.join(str(member) for member in group[1]))
        
        outfile = open(path, 'w')
        outfile.write(output)
        outfile.close()