> 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.
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
