scripts/quizlet2anki.py

#!/usr/bin/env cached-nix-shell
#!nix-shell -i python3 -p python3
# I want to use Anki instead of Quizlet. However, Quizlet only provides a very
# limited “export” functionality, that exports something like csv, but does not
# support quoting. So it will fail if your separation character is either your
# column or row separator (e.g. if you have multiple lines in one field).

# This script takes unquoted data with separators that don’t exist on the cards
# (世 for columns, 界 for rows) and exports it as a more usable csv (quoted,
# cols separated by tab, rows separated by newline).
import sys

outfile = sys.argv[1]

quizlet_output = sys.stdin.read()

maybe_tsv = '"' + quizlet_output.replace("世", '"\t"').replace("界", '"\n"')

maybe_tsv = maybe_tsv[:-2]

with open(outfile, "w") as f:
    f.write(maybe_tsv)