Pycards 0.5

Table of Contents

• Table of contents
• Pycards
  • Introduction
  • Requirements
  • Todo
  • Troubleshooting
• Documentation
  • Leitner system
  • Usage cli.py
• Licence
• Chancelog

Pycards↑

Introduction↑

pycards is an engine with different frontends to memorize things using flashcards. pycards is written in Python 3 and uses a sqlite database to store all the data. It is starting to get a little usable.

Requirements↑

• Python 3

Todo↑

• Web interface
• Curses interface
• Graphical user interface

Troubleshooting↑

If the program misbehaves at a certain point please make sure before posting an issue that you run it with Python 3.

Documentation↑

Leitner system↑

The Leitner-system is a system of repeating flashcards and works with boxes. Our implementation has 5 boxes. Cards go up a box if you answer them correct and go down in box when you answer them incorrect. A card can not go lower then box 1 nor can it go higher then box 5.

Cards in box 1 are asked every session, cards in box 2 are asked every other session, cards in box 3 are asked once every 3 sessions, cards in box 4 are asked once in every 4 sessions and cards in box 5 are never asked again.

Usage of cli.py↑

cli.py [globaloptions] {list,load,remove,export,session} [options] [args]

• globaloptions

  • -h, --help

    Show the help message and exit.

  • -d DATABASE, --database DATABASE

    Specify a custom database file. If not given ~/.pycards/pycards.db is used.

  • -l {INFO,DEBUG,SILENT}, --loglevel {INFO,DEBUG,SILENT}

    Specify a custom log level. If not given SILENT is used.

  • -f LOGFILE, --logfile LOGFILE

    Specify a log file location. If not given stdout is used.

  • --version

    Show version number and exit

• list: cli.py [globaloptions] list [options] [deckname [deckname ...]]

  Show one or more decks from the database.

  • -h, --help

    Show the list specific help message and exit.

  • -e, --show-entries

    Flag to print all the individual entries

  • deckname

    Name of the deck to print. If not given, all decks will be printed.

• load: cli.py [globaloptions] load [options] deckname [filepath]

  Load a deck from a file into a database. The input must be tab separated and two columns. The first column is the question and the second column is the answer.

  • -h, --help

    Show the load specific help message and exit.

  • deckname

    Name of the deck to load the entries in.

  • filepath

    Location to load the entries from. If not given stdin is used

• remove: cli.py [globaloptions] remove [options] deckname [deckname ...]

  Remove decks from the database.

  • -h, --help

    Show the remove specific help message and exit.

  • deckname

    Name of the deck to remove.

• export: cli.py [globaloptions] export [options] deckname [deckname ...]

  Export decks from the database.

  • -h, --help

    Show the export specific help message and exit.

  • -f, --filepath

    Location to export to. If not given stdout is used

  • deckname

    Name of the deck to export.

• session: cli.py [globaloptions] session [options] deckname

  Run a session with a deck.

  • -h, --help

    Show the session specific help message and exit.

  • -l, --leitner

    Use the leitner-system.

  • -r, --random

    Randomize the questions.

  • -i, --inverse

    Inverse the question and the answer.

  • deckname

    Name of the deck to start the session with

Licence↑

See LICENCE file.

Changelog↑

Version 0.5

• Added statistics table.
• CRTL+C will interrupt but will write statistics first.

Version 0.4

• Better command line parser, parser separated from main.
• List, export and remove accept multiple decknames now.
• Better error handling for malformed input files.
• Fancy menu in README.md

Version 0.3

• Leitner system implemented.
• Changed systems so that the system is with flags instead of names. In this way one can do random-leitner-inverse for example.
• All queries parameterized where possible, also changed deck databases to be consisting of ids and ascii only to let names contain every character.
• Updated readme with help.
• Removed the need for a config file.
• Better time representation in cli.py while listing decks.

Version 0.2

• List deck(s) either with or without all the entries.
• Remove a deck.
• Export to a file.
• Load a deck from tab separated files with two columns.
• Play a session with a deck and different systems: ordered, random.

Version 0.1

• Initial version