Implement #4095 (Allow custom news recipes to reverse the order of articles)

Changelog.yaml

@@ -4,6 +4,66 @@
 # for important features/bug fixes.
 # Also, each release can have new and improved recipes.
 
+- version: 0.6.25
+  date: 2009-11-30
+
+  new features:
+    - title: Add option to swap title and author in the Bulk metadata dialog
+      tickets: [3885]
+
+    - title: Make the metadata download plugins customizable
+
+    - title: Various improvements to the conversion of PDB/PML books with an all new state machine based parser
+
+    - title: Driver for upgraded SONY PRS 500
+
+    - title: Full support for PocketBook 360 with SD card
+
+    - title: "ODT Input: Reflow positioned images"
+      tickets: [4060]
+
+    - title: "Conversion pipeline: Add option to control the inserted paragraph indent when using the remove blank line between paragraphs option"
+
+    - title: When reading metadata from PDf files, look for the ISBN in the file text.
+      tickets: [3013]
+
+    - title: Periodically check for updates to calibre instead of just at startup
+      tickets: [4040]
+    
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: Reorganize Dutch language news sources into Belgium and Netherlands categories
+      tickets: [4098]
+
+    - title: Fix bad markup in some New York Times articles causing download to fail
+      tickets: [4032]
+
+    - title: Fix recipe for Glasgow Herald
+
+    - title: Fixed recipe for The Australian
+
+    - title: Add PDF to list of supported formats for the Kindle 2
+
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: The Economist (no subscription required)
+      author: Kovid Goyal
+
+    - title: Sports Illustrated1
+      author: kwetal
+
+    - title: Levante
+      author: kwetal
+
+    - title: ncrnext
+      author: kwetal
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - The Philadelphia Inquirer
+    - Harpers
+    - Our Daily Bread
+    - Sydney Morning Herald
+
+
 - version: 0.6.24
   date: 2009-11-16
 

src/calibre/ebooks/pml/pmlconverter.py

@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ class PML_HTMLizer(object):
         pml = re.sub(r'(?mus)^[ ]*(?=.)', '', pml)
         pml = re.sub(r'(?mus)(?<=.)[ ]*$', '', pml)
         pml = re.sub(r'(?mus)^[ ]*$', '', pml)
-        
+
         # Footnotes and Sidebars
         pml = re.sub(r'(?mus)<footnote\s+id="(?P<target>.+?)">\s*(?P<text>.*?)\s*</footnote>', lambda match: '\\FN="fns-%s"%s\\FN' % (match.group('target'), match.group('text')) if match.group('text') else '', pml)
         pml = re.sub(r'(?mus)<sidebar\s+id="(?P<target>.+?)">\s*(?P<text>.*?)\s*</sidebar>', lambda match: '\\SB="fns-%s"%s\\SB' % (match.group('target'), match.group('text')) if match.group('text') else '', pml)
@@ -230,13 +230,13 @@ class PML_HTMLizer(object):
         elif code in self.BLOCK_STATES:
             text = self.process_code_block(code, stream, pre)
         else:
-            text = self.process_code_simple(code)
+            text = self.process_code_simple(code, stream)
 
         self.state[code][0] = not self.state[code][0]
 
         return text
 
-    def process_code_simple(self, code):
+    def process_code_simple(self, code, stream):
         text = u''
 
         if self.state[code][0]:

src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py

@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(Recipe):
     #: websites that try to make it difficult to scrape content.
     articles_are_obfuscated = False
 
+    #: Reverse the order of articles in each feed
+    reverse_article_order = False
+
     #: Specify any extra :term:`CSS` that should be addded to downloaded :term:`HTML` files
     #: It will be inserted into `<style>` tags, just before the closing
     #: `</head>` tag thereby overriding all :term:`CSS` except that which is
@@ -728,6 +731,10 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(Recipe):
             fi.write(html)
 
         self.jobs = []
+
+        if self.reverse_article_order:
+            feeds = [list(reversed(feed)) for feed in feeds]
+
         for f, feed in enumerate(feeds):
             feed_dir = os.path.join(self.output_dir, 'feed_%d'%f)
             if not os.path.isdir(feed_dir):