source: mpd-status/trunk/mpd-status.py @ 29

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Copyright © 2005, Simon E. Ward
#
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from os.path import sep, splitext
from sre import compile

state_map = {
    'play': 'Playing',
    'pause': 'Paused',
    'stop': 'Stopped'
    }
fields = ['artist', 'album', 'track', 'title']
strip_paths = [
    'albums',
    'classical',
    'houseofdoom',
    'mods',
    'original',
    'soundtracks'
    ]

strip_expr = compile('(%s)/' % r'|'.join(strip_paths))

def get_status(connection):
    songinfo = {}
    songinfo['state'] = state_map[connection.status()['state']]
    song = connection.currentsong()
    songinfo['song'] = \
        ' - '.join([song[f] for f in fields if song.has_key(f)]) \
        or strip_expr.sub('', splitext(song['file'])[0]).replace(sep, ' - ')
    return songinfo

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from mpdclient2 import connect
    format = '♫ %(state)s: %(song)s'
    print format % get_status(connect())