#!/bin/env python

 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

 # ------------------------------------------------------------

 # new_firefox_profile_id

 # 

 # pick the next firefox profile id

 #

 # Autor: Oliver Maurhart, <oliver.maurhart@ait.ac.at>

 #

 # Copyright (C) 2013 AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

 # AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

 # Donau-City-Strasse 1 | 1220 Vienna | Austria

 # http://www.ait.ac.at

 #

 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

 # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

 # as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2.

 # 

 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 # GNU General Public License for more details.

 # 

 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, 

 # Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.

 # ------------------------------------------------------------

 # ------------------------------------------------------------

 # imports

 import os

 import os.path

 import ConfigParser     # in pythjon 3 this is lowercase

 # ------------------------------------------------------------

 # code

 def main():

     # grab the firefox profile ini (path may differ ...)

     profiles_path = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.mozilla', 'firefox', 'profiles.ini')

     cfg = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()

     cfg.read(profiles_path)

     profiles = [p for p in cfg.sections() if p.startswith('Profile')]

     i = 0

     for p in profiles:

         p_number = p[len('Profile'):]

         try:

             i = max(int(p_number), i)

         except:

             pass

     print i + 1

 if __name__ == '__main__':

     main()