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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""The Planet aggregator.
+
+A flexible and easy-to-use aggregator for generating websites.
+
+Visit http://www.planetplanet.org/ for more information and to download
+the latest version.
+
+Requires Python 2.1, recommends 2.3.
+"""
+
+__authors__ = [ "Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>",
+                "Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org>" ]
+__license__ = "Python"
+
+
+import os, sys
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    config_file = "config.ini"
+    offline = 0
+    verbose = 0
+
+    for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
+        if arg == "-h" or arg == "--help":
+            print "Usage: planet [options] [CONFIGFILE]"
+            print
+            print "Options:"
+            print " -v, --verbose       DEBUG level logging during update"
+            print " -o, --offline       Update the Planet from the cache only"
+            print " -h, --help          Display this help message and exit"
+            print
+            sys.exit(0)
+        elif arg == "-v" or arg == "--verbose":
+            verbose = 1
+        elif arg == "-o" or arg == "--offline":
+            offline = 1
+        elif arg.startswith("-"):
+            print >>sys.stderr, "Unknown option:", arg
+            sys.exit(1)
+        else:
+            config_file = arg
+
+    if verbose:
+        import planet
+        planet.getLogger('DEBUG')
+
+    if not offline:
+        from planet import spider
+        spider.spiderPlanet(config_file)
+
+    from planet import splice
+    doc = splice.splice(config_file)
+    splice.apply(doc.toxml('utf-8'))