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+from courseware import grades, courses
+from django.test.client import RequestFactory
+from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
+import os
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+from optparse import make_option
+import datetime
+from django.core.handlers.base import BaseHandler
+import csv
+
+
+class RequestMock(RequestFactory):
+    def request(self, **request):
+        "Construct a generic request object."
+        request = RequestFactory.request(self, **request)
+        handler = BaseHandler()
+        handler.load_middleware()
+        for middleware_method in handler._request_middleware:
+            if middleware_method(request):
+                raise Exception("Couldn't create request mock object - "
+                                "request middleware returned a response")
+        return request
+
+
+class Command(BaseCommand):
+
+    help = """
+    Generate a list of grades for all students
+    that are enrolled in a course.
+
+    Outputs grades to a csv file.
+
+    Example:
+      sudo -u www-data SERVICE_VARIANT=lms /opt/edx/bin/django-admin.py get_grades \
+        -c MITx/Chi6.00intro/A_Taste_of_Python_Programming -o /tmp/20130813-6.00x.csv \
+        --settings=lms.envs.aws --pythonpath=/opt/wwc/edx-platform
+    """
+
+    option_list = BaseCommand.option_list + (
+        make_option('-c', '--course',
+                    metavar='COURSE_ID',
+                    dest='course',
+                    default=False,
+                    help='Grade and generate certificates for a specific '
+                         'course'),
+        make_option('-o', '--output',
+                    metavar='FILE',
+                    dest='output',
+                    default=False,
+                    help='Filename for grade output'))
+
+    def handle(self, *args, **options):
+        if os.path.exists(options['output']):
+            raise CommandError("File {0} already exists".format(
+                options['output']))
+
+        STATUS_INTERVAL = 100
+        course_id = options['course']
+        print "Fetching enrolled students for {0}".format(course_id)
+        enrolled_students = User.objects.filter(
+            courseenrollment__course_id=course_id).prefetch_related(
+                "groups").order_by('username')
+        factory = RequestMock()
+        request = factory.get('/')
+
+        total = enrolled_students.count()
+        print "Total enrolled: {0}".format(total)
+        course = courses.get_course_by_id(course_id)
+        total = enrolled_students.count()
+        start = datetime.datetime.now()
+        rows = []
+        header = None
+        for count, student in enumerate(enrolled_students):
+            count += 1
+            if count % STATUS_INTERVAL == 0:
+                # Print a status update with an approximation of
+                # how much time is left based on how long the last
+                # interval took
+                diff = datetime.datetime.now() - start
+                timeleft = diff * (total - count) / STATUS_INTERVAL
+                hours, remainder = divmod(timeleft.seconds, 3600)
+                minutes, seconds = divmod(remainder, 60)
+                print "{0}/{1} completed ~{2:02}:{3:02}m remaining".format(
+                    count, total, hours, minutes)
+                start = datetime.datetime.now()
+            request.user = student
+            grade = grades.grade(student, request, course)
+            if not header:
+                header = [section['label'] for section in grade[u'section_breakdown']]
+                rows.append(["email", "username"] + header)
+            percents = {section['label']: section['percent'] for section in grade[u'section_breakdown']}
+            row_percents = [percents[label] for label in header]
+            rows.append([student.email, student.username] + row_percents)
+        with open(options['output'], 'wb') as f:
+            writer = csv.writer(f)
+            writer.writerows(rows)