Daniel Nogradi a écrit : >> 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" >> />
May take a look at launchd (Apple) XML dialect, it may have at least the semantic for your need. For other parts... elementtree, yes. >> 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. > > This will not solve all your problems, but a very convenient way of > handling XML is the element tree module (that comes with python 2.5): > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.etree.ElementTree.html > > HTH, > Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
