From: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: My Python solution to generating unique Ids in headlines
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:39:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49AF8FB5.1040805@manor-farm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200903042320.n24NKDmD007471@mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au>
> I settled on using a small Python script, since I am not
> a Lisp programmer.
>
> 1. I created a text file todononum.txt which contains
> the next number to use.
>
> 2. I created the following script to read this file, return the
> next available number formatted in a unique, easy to find string,
> for example [#310].
>
> # script next_todo.py
> import sys
> nextnum_file = "C:/charles/gtd/todonum.txt"
>
> try:
> f = open(nextnum_file, 'r')
> except IOError:
> print "Unable to open %s. Program terminating." % nextnum_file
> sys.exit(1)
>
> val = int(f.readline()) + 1
> f.close()
>
> of = open(nextnum_file, 'w')
> of.write("%d\n" % val)
> of.close()
>
> print "[#%s]" % val
>
>
Charles,
If you don't need human readable numbers, you could try something like
the following to generate a hash:
import hashlib
from time import strftime
timestamp = strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
s = myorg_item + timestamp
myhash = hashlib.sha224(s).hexdigest()
This combines your org text with the current timestamp to generate a
hash. Since it's unlikely that you will try to create a hash from two
identical org items at the same moment in time, this should be unique.
Ian.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-05 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-04 23:20 My Python solution to generating unique Ids in headlines Charles Cave
2009-03-04 23:59 ` Nick Dokos
2009-03-05 2:40 ` Charles Cave
2009-03-05 9:37 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-06 2:13 ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-05 8:39 ` Ian Barton [this message]
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