scripts/pd
#!/usr/bin/env python3 # This script opens a temp file in a vim buffer and after wrting and quiting from vim, it writes the contents to the file # specified by the file_path with a date and timestamp. # I use this for my journal. import os import datetime import sys import tempfile import subprocess, shlex file_path = r'/home/prithu/Dropbox/Tasker/pd.txt' entry = None with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix='.pdtemp') as temp: command = "vim {}".format(temp.name) subprocess.run(shlex.split(command)) entry = open(temp.name, 'r').read() if entry == '': print("Nothing was entered...") exit() with open(file_path, 'a', encoding='utf8') as fp: dt = datetime.datetime.now() date_string = dt.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y') time_string = dt.strftime('%I:%M %p') date_and_time = '[' + date_string + ' | ' + time_string + ']' fp.write('\n\n\n===============================\n' + date_and_time + '\n') fp.write(entry) print("\nEntry:\n\n{}".format(entry))