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import csv
from datetime import datetime
from operator import attrgetter
#======================================================
# A re-creation of my Reminder program from several decades ago!! My first Python program!
#
# Version 0.1 04-Mar-2021 In the beginning
# Version 0.2 07-Mar-2021 In the beginning 
# Version 0.3 07-Mar-2021 I'm finally happy!
#======================================================
class Reminder:
    def __init__(self, myRec):
        self.Date = myRec[0]
        self.DateTimeConversion = datetime.strptime(myRec[0],"%d-%b-%Y")
        self.Message = myRec[1]
#======================================================
# Function GetReminderData to get the reminder data
#
#
# Read each record in the file
# Ignore any blank lines 
# Add each record to the list myReminders
#
def GetReminderData(myFile,myReminders) :
    with open(myFile) as csv_file:
        csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter=',')
        line_count = 0
        for rec in csv_reader:
            if rec == []:
                pass
            else:
                line_count += 1
                p = Reminder(rec)
                myReminders.append(p)    
    csv_file.close()
#====================================================
# Function HowManyDaysDifference to get the number of days between today's date and a text date
# This is my weird code - what a palaver!
def HowManyDaysDifference(TextDate):
    today_object = datetime.now()
    mydate_in_datetime = datetime.strptime(TextDate,"%d-%b-%Y")
    tdiff = mydate_in_datetime - today_object
    diff_in_days = tdiff.days
    if diff_in_days >= 0:
        diff_in_days += 1
    else:
        tdiff = today_object - mydate_in_datetime
        diff_in_days = -tdiff.days
  
    return diff_in_days

#==================================================
# Function PrintList to nicely print the data
def PrintList ():
    mySectionSeparator = "-" * 75
    tChange = True
    print ("\n" * 10 )
    print ("         Welcome to my Python Reminder program!")
    print (mySectionSeparator)
    
    for i in sorted(myReminders, key = attrgetter('DateTimeConversion')):
        nDays = HowManyDaysDifference(i.Date)
        if tChange and nDays > 0:
            tChange = False
            print (mySectionSeparator)
        if nDays == 0:
            t1 = "     Today    "
        elif nDays == -1:
            t1 = "   Yesterday  "
        elif nDays == 1:
            t1 = "    Tomorrow  "
        elif nDays < 0:
            t1 = '{:4d}'.format(-nDays) + " days since"
        else:
            t1 = '{:4d}'.format(nDays) + " days until"
        t2 = i.Date +t1
        print (t2,i.Message) 
    
    print (mySectionSeparator)
#=================================================
# This is the MAIN  program
#
myFile = 'C:/Users/Mike/Documents/Documents/MyPythonCode/Reminder.dat'

myReminders = []

GetReminderData(myFile, myReminders)

PrintList()

And the output is….

I’ve just started reading this second-hand, 1973 paperback  – a Christmas present from my son’s German girlfriend. Admire the book’s yellow pages – it’s 48 years-old! The enclosed bookmark says the book came from one of the many Berlin bookshops selling English books.

Astonishingly, Berlin bookshops are considered ‘essential services’ during lockdown and allowed to stay open – we in the UK can only dream.

Here’s a rather nice article detailing ‘The best English bookstores in Berlin‘.

What have I talked myself into? I casually suggested to my daughter that on a Zoom call I could do some painting with the little ones. So I invested in some gear, and here is my studio setup. My daughter suggested acrylic paints but I did find it all a bit fiddly squeezing bits out of tubes – oh for a paintbox! I think I’ve verified my opinion that I have no artistic skills as well as no shame, but early days, eh! If nothing comes of it I can pass on my materials to Chloe and Iris.

First review from the little ones:

“Iris said “wow!”…Chloe observed that you’d paid attention to that video you’d watched! And she wants to know where’s your next one!”

See my progress here….