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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""This program imports the tutorials from
+https://github.com/kubernetes/examples and makes necessary modifications to
+check them in as Jekyll-compatible documentation pages.
+"""
+
+import os.path
+import shutil
+import urllib.request
+
+SRC_TREE = 'master'  # Revision for kubernetes/examples used
+
+# mapping of tutorials in kubernetes/examples to their
+# equivalent files here: (examples-path, docs-path, new-title)
+TUTORIALS = [
+    ('guestbook/README.md',
+        './docs/tutorials/stateless-application/guestbook.md',
+        "Example: Deploying PHP Guestbook application with Redis"),
+    ('mysql-wordpress-pd/README.md',
+        './docs/tutorials/stateful-application/mysql-wordpress-persistent-volume.md',
+        "Example: WordPress and MySQL with Persistent Volumes"),
+    ('cassandra/README.md',
+        './docs/tutorials/stateful-application/cassandra.md',
+        "Example: Deploying Cassandra with Stateful Sets"),
+]
+
+
+def main():
+    for (src_path, dst_path, new_title) in TUTORIALS:
+        print('Processing {0}'.format(src_path))
+        dst_dir = os.path.dirname(dst_path)
+        if not os.path.exists(dst_dir):
+            print('Ensuring destination directory exists.')
+            os.makedirs(dst_dir)
+        if os.path.exists(dst_path):
+            os.remove(dst_path)
+        src_url = 'https://github.com/kubernetes/examples/raw/{0}/{1}'.format(SRC_TREE, src_path)
+        print('Downloading {0}'.format(src_url))
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(src_url) as resp, \
+                open(dst_path, 'wb') as out_file:
+            shutil.copyfileobj(resp, out_file)
+        print('Saved to {0}'.format(dst_path))
+
+        print('Processing {0}'.format(dst_path))
+        remove_excluded_snippets(dst_path)
+        insert_title(dst_path, new_title)
+        insert_do_not_update(dst_path)
+        print('Processed {0}'.format(dst_path))
+
+
+def remove_excluded_snippets(path):
+    """Remove content between '<!-- EXCLUDE_FROM_DOCS BEGIN -->' and
+    '<!-- EXCLUDE_FROM_DOCS END -->' markers (including the markers)
+    in the specified file. Markers must appear on their own lines."""
+
+    marker_begin = '<!-- EXCLUDE_FROM_DOCS BEGIN -->\n'
+    marker_end = '<!-- EXCLUDE_FROM_DOCS END -->\n'
+
+    new_lines = []
+    started = False
+    excluded_blocks = 0
+    with open(path, 'r') as f:
+        for line_no, line in enumerate(f):
+            ref = '{0}:{1}'.format(path, line_no)
+            if (marker_begin.rstrip('\n') in line and
+                (line != marker_begin and line != marker_end.rstrip('\n'))) or \
+                (marker_end.rstrip('\n') in line and (line != marker_end and
+                    line != marker_end.rstrip('\n'))):
+                raise Exception('{0}: EXCLUDE_FROM_DOCS marker must be on its own line'.format(ref))
+            if not started:
+                if line == marker_end:
+                    raise Exception('{0}: encountered END before BEGIN'.format(ref))
+                elif line == marker_begin:
+                    started = True
+                else:
+                    new_lines.append(line.rstrip('\n'))
+            else:
+                if line == marker_begin:
+                    raise Exception('{0}: encountered BEGIN again before END'.format(ref))
+                elif line == marker_end:
+                    started = False
+                    excluded_blocks += 1
+                else:
+                    continue
+    if started:
+        raise Exception('encountered EOF before END')
+    print('{0} EXCLUDE_FROM_DOCS blocks removed.'.format(excluded_blocks))
+    with open(path, 'w') as f:
+        f.write('\n'.join(new_lines))
+
+
+def insert_title(path, title):
+    """Inserts title in Jekyll metadata format to the file."""
+    prepend_file(path, '---\ntitle: "{0}"\n---\n\n'.format(title))
+
+
+def insert_do_not_update(path):
+    notice = '<!--' + '\n' * 15 + 'DO NOT UPDATE THIS FILE!\n\n' \
+        + 'Submit a patch to https://github.com/kubernetes/examples and\n' \
+        + 'once it is merged, run ./update-imported-tutorials.sh to\n' \
+        + 'import it to the website.' + '\n' * 15 + '-->\n\n'
+    prepend_file(path, notice)
+
+
+def prepend_file(path, ss):
+    with open(path, 'r') as f:
+        for line in f:
+            ss += line
+    with open(path, 'w') as f:
+        f.write(ss)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()