What is it?

This is a simple Python library for reading and writing todo.txt files (i.e., the dirt-simple text format used by the todo.txt bash script by Gina Trapani. Mostly it is an excuse for me to brush up on TDD in Python.

This library was developed in conjunction with the tracks-python library, for interfacing with Tracks instances (Tracks is a GTD todo list web application), and is included as a sub-project in the Tracks-Sync extension for todo.txt. The reason for using Python for this integration was to have a todo.txt parsing library that wasn't written in Bash but which would run on most Linux servers.

Major caveats for using this library are:

• It may not see much more active development.
• I didn't implement anything with regard to Priority.
• I don't understand relative module inclusion in Python very well. There's a lot of appending the path of the parent directory to the paths list.
• There might be a hard dependency on the Tracks module.
• If you run this on your beloved todo.txt files, be sure to MAKE A BACKUP first. It could very well erase or jumble your data.

Usage

# instantiate the parser
parser = TodotxtParser(verbose = True)

# read the todo.txt files from the usual place (~/.todo)
parser.load()

# else change the default path
parser.setConfig({'todo_dir' : '/tmp/.todo'})
parser.load()

# get the todos
todos = parser.getTodos()

# add a todo
parser.addTodo( {
    'description'    : 'A brand new thing to do',
    'context' : 'newcontext',
    'project' : 'newproject'
    }
)

# write the new data back to file
parser.writeData()

# remove a todo from the file
parser.removeTodo(2)

# Complete a todo
parser.completeTodo(1)

Feedback

If somebody actually has a use for this library and has additional requirements/ bugs / patches, go ahead and submit them as Github issues and I will respond to them as quickly as possible.