mmarks | # 1 | 2011-06-20, 18:22 | Report

As the title really.
Learning python and in order to progress, I have some application ideas.
One app I want to work at involves creating calendar entries. Can this be done and if so any coding examples or links to the documentation giving the format and parameters?

jackburton | # 2 | 2011-06-20, 20:49 | Report

You can create entries in the calendardb itself. There is the calendar-backend API, but that's C++ (and the only API I've used for this). Qt now has the mobility API, which may work. There are python bindings (apparently, found using Google) in the PySide project.

http://www.pyside.org/docs/pyside-mobility/

Good luck.

mmarks | # 3 | 2011-06-20, 22:17 | Report

thanks for the info, i assume there is access to sqlite through python.
any idea how to format the datestart and dateend fields? not sure how they work. today (20th june 2011 at 15:00) is stored as 1308578400

jackburton | # 4 | 2011-06-21, 01:42 | Report

I believe that is unix time.

Conversion is here: http://soft.zoneo.net/Unixtime/index.php

Looks like the time zone is not part of that field, though.

I'm not a python guy, but i'm sure there's conversion functions for creating unix time entries with other date functions.