The icalendar package looks nice.
For instance, to write a file:
from icalendar import Calendar, Event
from datetime import datetime
from pytz import UTC # timezone
cal = Calendar()
cal.add('prodid', '-//My calendar product//mxm.dk//')
cal.add('version', '2.0')
event = Event()
event.add('summary', 'Python meeting about calendaring')
event.add('dtstart', datetime(2005,4,4,8,0,0,tzinfo=UTC))
event.add('dtend', datetime(2005,4,4,10,0,0,tzinfo=UTC))
event.add('dtstamp', datetime(2005,4,4,0,10,0,tzinfo=UTC))
event['uid'] = '20050115T101010/27346262376@mxm.dk'
event.add('priority', 5)
cal.add_component(event)
f = open('example.ics', 'wb')
f.write(cal.to_ical())
f.close()
Tadaaa, you get this file:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//My calendar product//mxm.dk//
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20050404T100000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20050404T001000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20050404T080000Z
PRIORITY:5
SUMMARY:Python meeting about calendaring
UID:20050115T101010/27346262376@mxm.dk
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
But what lies in this file?
g = open('example.ics','rb')
gcal = Calendar.from_ical(g.read())
for component in gcal.walk():
print component.name
g.close()
You can see it easily:
>>>
VCALENDAR
VEVENT
>>>
What about parsing the data about the events:
g = open('example.ics','rb')
gcal = Calendar.from_ical(g.read())
for component in gcal.walk():
if component.name == "VEVENT":
print(component.get('summary'))
print(component.get('dtstart'))
print(component.get('dtend'))
print(component.get('dtstamp'))
g.close()
Now you get:
>>>
Python meeting about calendaring
20050404T080000Z
20050404T100000Z
20050404T001000Z
>>>
