Jppy: Example for moving your Birthdays over to ContactsDB

[Nicholas Piper]

Hi,

I just saw that HappyDays has a beta out, which supports the Birthday
field in Contacts: http://jmjeong.com/index.php?display=HappyDays

So I wanted to move all my birthday details over. Only those which are
simple Birthdays, and only those with years in. Here's what I did in a
Python script:

import jppy
import mx.DateTime

ab = jppy.addressBook()

for r in ab.records():
    if r['custom1']:
        s = r['custom1']
        parts = s.split('/')
        if len(parts) == 3 and len(parts[-1]) == 2:
            s = "/".join((parts[0],
                          parts[1],
                          "19%s" % parts[2]))
        try:
            date = mx.DateTime.strptime(s,"%d/%m/%Y")
        except Exception, e:
            print r, r['custom1'], e
            continue
        r['birthday'] = date
        r['custom1'] = ""
        print r, r['custom1'], r['birthday']
        ab.save(r)


Just sharing in case it's handy.

 Nick

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