Creating Blog Index Page for Jekyll

import dateutil
from slugify import slugify


try:
    from IPython.display import display, Markdown

    h1 = lambda text: display(Markdown(f"# {text}"))
    h2 = lambda text: display(Markdown(f"## {text}"))
    h3 = lambda text: display(Markdown(f"### {text}"))
    jn = True
except:
    h1 = lambda text: print(f"# {text}")
    h2 = lambda text: print(f"## {text}")
    h3 = lambda text: print(f"## {text}")
    jn = False

folder_name = "../pythonically"
blog = "blog"

index_front_matter = f"""---
layout: post
title: "Pythonic Ally Blog Index"
slug: {blog}
---"""

journal_path = f"{folder_name}/journal.md"
output_path = f"{folder_name}/_posts/"
slicer = "-" * 80

dates = []
counter = -1
date_next = False
with open(journal_path, "r") as fh:
    for line in fh:
        line = line.rstrip()
        if date_next:
            adate = line[3:]
            date_next = False
            adatetime = dateutil.parser.parse(adate).date()
            dates.append(adatetime)
            date_next = False
        if line == slicer:
            date_next = True
            counter = counter + 1
dates.reverse()

h1(f"There Are {counter} Posts:")

table = []
at_top = True
index_list = []
with open(journal_path, "r") as fh:
    for i, line in enumerate(fh):
        line = line.rstrip()
        if line == slicer:
            if at_top:
                at_top = False
                table = []
                continue
            adatetime = dates[counter - 1]
            filename = f"{output_path}{adatetime}-post-{counter}.md"
            h3(f"FILE: {filename}")
            with open(filename, "w") as fw:
                title = f"Post {counter}"
                slug = title
                if table[0] == slicer:
                    table = table[1:]
                maybe = table[1]
                has_title = False
                if table and maybe and maybe[0] == "#":
                    title = maybe[maybe.find(" ") + 1 :]
                    has_title = True
                slug = slugify(title)
                top = []
                top.append("---\n")
                top.append("layout: post\n")
                top.append(f'title: "{title}"\n')
                top.append(f"categories: {blog}\n")
                top.append(f"slug: {slug}\n")
                link = f"- [{title}](/{blog}/{slug}/)"
                index_list.append(link)
                top.append("---\n")
                top.append("\n")
                top_chop = 2
                if has_title:
                    top_chop = 3
                table = [f"{x}\n" for x in table[top_chop:]]
                table = top + table
                print("".join(table))
                fw.writelines(table)
            counter = counter - 1
            table = []
        table.append(line)

index_page = index_front_matter + "\n\n" + "\n".join(index_list)

with open(f"{folder_name}/blog.md", "w") as fh:
    fh.writelines(index_page)