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#!/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' # This script keeps checking for the dropbox status every 10s and # runs 'dropbox stop' and exits once dropbox is done with its # syncing. this shell script should be in the PATH. exitdrop=( """ #!/bin/bash stat=$(dropbox status) if [ "$stat" = "Dropbox isn't running!" ] then echo $stat exit 0 fi while : do if [ "$stat" = "Up to date" ] then dropbox stop exit 0 fi stat=$(dropbox status) done """) 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) subprocess.run(['dropbox', 'start']) with open('/tmp/exitdrop.sh', 'w') as tmp: tmp.write(exitdrop) tmp.close() subprocess.run(['chmod', '+x', '/tmp/exitdrop.sh']) subprocess.run(['sh', '/tmp/exitdrop.sh'])