orgformat

This is a utility library for providing functions to generate and modify Org mode syntax elements like headings, links, time-stamps, or date-stamps.

Documentation

You can find the pydoc documentation in HTML here. Sorry for the default colors of pydoc.

I also consider the unit tests as a good starting point to learn about the features provided.

Just a few examples:

        self.assertEqual(OrgFormat.orgmode_timestamp_to_datetime(
            '<1980-12-31 Wed 23:59>'),
                         datetime.datetime(1980, 12, 31, 23, 59, 0, tzinfo=None))

        self.assertEqual(OrgFormat.apply_timedelta_to_org_timestamp(
            '<2019-11-06 Wed 00:59>', -2.0), '<2019-11-05 Tue 22:59>')

        self.assertEqual(OrgFormat.date(time.strptime('2011-11-02T20:38', '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M'), 
                                        inactive=False,
                                        repeater_or_delay='+2w '),
                         '<2011-11-02 Wed +2w>')

        self.assertEqual(
            OrgFormat.daterange_autodetect_time(
                time.strptime('2011-11-29', '%Y-%m-%d'),
                time.strptime('2011-11-30T23:59', '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M'), inactive=True),
            '[2011-11-29 Tue 00:00]--[2011-11-30 Wed 23:59]')

        self.assertEqual(OrgFormat.strdate('2011-11-03T23:59'), '<2011-11-03 Thu>')
        self.assertEqual(OrgFormat.strdate('2011-11-30 21:06', show_time=True, repeater_or_delay=' +7y   '),
                         '<2011-11-30 Wed 21:06 +7y>')

        self.assertEqual(OrgFormat.parse_extended_iso_datetime("2011-1-2T3:4:5"),
                         time.strptime('2011-01-02 03.04.05', '%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S'))


        self.assertEqual(
            OrgFormat.date(
                OrgFormat.parse_basic_iso_datetime('20111219T205510Z'), True
            ),
            '<2011-12-19 Mon 21:55>'
        )

        self.assertEqual(OrgFormat.mailto_link('Bob@example.com'),
                         '[[mailto:Bob@example.com][Bob@example.com]]')

        self.assertEqual(OrgFormat.dhms_from_sec(99999), '1d 3:46:39')

        self.assertEqual(OrgFormat.generate_heading(level=1,
                                                    keyword='TODO',
                                                    priority='A',
                                                    title='This is my title',
                                                    tags=['foo', 'bar_baz'],
                                                    scheduled_timestamp='<2019-12-29 Sun 11:35>',
                                                    deadline_timestamp='<2019-12-30 Mon 23:59>',
                                                    properties=[('CREATED', OrgFormat.strdate('2011-11-03 23:59', inactive=True, show_time=True)),
                                                                ('myproperty','foo bar baz')],
                                                    section=' With this being\nthe content of the heading section.'),
'''* TODO [#A] This is my title  :foo:bar_baz:
SCHEDULED: <2019-12-29 Sun 11:35> DEADLINE: <2019-12-30 Mon 23:59>
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: [2011-11-03 Thu 23:59]
:myproperty: foo bar baz
:END:

 With this being
the content of the heading section.
''')

Installation

This tool needs Python 3 to be installed.

You can install orgformat stand-alone via pip:

pip3 install orgformat

If you are using a project that is referring to orgformat, this library usually gets added to the requirements.txt file of that project and installed when you do invoke:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Changelog

This changelog does not list all commits/changes, just the substantial ones.

• 2019.11.03.1: Finished moving from Memacs and lazyblorg to a separate library
• 2019.11.06.1:
  • Python type annotations added for mypy checks
  • Refactoring, simplification, unification:
    • more parameters for show_time and inactive
    • removed some very basic and so-far unused wrappers for other functions
    • removed functions for detailed parameters that got replaced by more generalized functions
    • renamed some functions
  • Unit tests for all functions ;-)
  • Much better documentation including examples
  • Don’t worry about these breaking changes: Memacs and lazyblorg (the only projects using this library so far) were adapted accordingly and therefore nobody else is affected. No breaking changes like this in the future.
• 2019.12.28.1: generate_heading()
• 2019.12.29.1:
  • date(), strdate(): added repeater_or_delay
  • generate_headining(): added scheduled_timestamp and deadline_timestamp

History

This file was initially written mainly by https://github.com/awieser and was part of Memacs.

As of 2019-10-31, this file is moved to an independent library since multiple projects are using its functions such as:

• lazyblorg
• appendorgheading is basically a Python wrapper script for generate_headining() to be used from command line

How to Thank Me

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• Create issues on GitHub for bugs
• Contribute merge requests for bug fixes
• Contribute unit tests
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