On Apr 26, 2007, at 4:26 AM, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: > A bit more of a complex one this time, and I thought I’d get your > opinions on the best way to achieve this. Basically I’m looking for > a way to describe a re-occurring event, like a calendar event or > appointment I guess. I’m likely to use an XML file for the > definition of the events, but imagine I’ve got an event that looks > something like this. > > > > <event start=”2007-01-01 12:00:00” end=”2007-01-01 15:00:00” > repeat=”daily” /> > > > > Now what I want to do is be able to build a class which has a > function like ‘getCurrentEvent()’ which will return any events that > should be occurring at that time. So if the current system time and > date is 2007-01-03 13:00:00 then it will return THAT event to me, > but if it was say 2007-01-03 16:00:00 then it would not, as the > event isn’t ‘due’ to occur at that time. Make sense? > > > > What’s the best way of handling this? I’m really a little lost as > to how I might get started, checking a static date time isn’t a > problem, it’s when it comes to these re-occurring events that I > struggle a little. The idea is that I would have 5 core > repetitions, none, daily, weekly, monthly and annually. > > > > Or perhaps you guys have a more full proof method of describing the > event in the XML? > > > > Any suggestions are more than welcome guys, thanks again for all > your help recently.
This is a *nix based project, right? If so, it might be useful to look into cron. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
