[ANN] iCalendar package 0.9

[Max M]

I have written a package that can parse and generate files according to
RFC 2445 (iCalender). That should be any file ending with .ics

It is not quite polished yet, but fully functional, and choke full of
doctest.

It does support the full spec and all datatypes and parameter values.

The Api is pretty stable, and will probably not change much.

I would like anybody interrested to give it a test drive before I finish
it off and make it a 1.0.

http://www.mxm.dk/products/public/ical/

Any feedback would be welcome.

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hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark

http://www.mxm.dk/
IT's Mad Science

 

[Roger Binns]

http://www.mxm.dk/products/public/ical/

Any feedback would be welcome.

How well do you cope with the crud that real programs generate? Does it work
with the different dialects uses out there? Can it at least identify them?

The reason why I ask is this would be useful for BitPim. When I wrote the
code for doing vCards, I soon found that there wasn't actually a single
program out there on Windows, Linux or Mac that actually generated 100%
standards conformant vCards. They generally complied with the spirit,
but screwed up character encoding, misspelled fields names, didn't do
the right thing when commas and semi-colons were present in values etc.
I assume the thing happens with ical.

Roger

 

[Max M]

How well do you cope with the crud that real programs generate? Does it work
with the different dialects uses out there? Can it at least identify them?

It depends on how badly the data is screwed up. But generally it should
be able to work on incorrect implementations.

It doesn't care of the spelling of property and parameter names. Though
type conversions will need to be done slightly more manual.

If something like 'dtstart' is misspelled it will not return a datetime

But if you know that it is misspelled you can get it, and convert it
manually like:

>>> from PropertyValues import vDDDType
>>> vDDDType.from_ical(cal['datestart'])

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hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark

http://www.mxm.dk/
IT's Mad Science