il: Diff for "Scheduler"

Overview

Scheduler is a simple python script that creates Instructional Lab Schedules (example: 103_4320.ps¹) from a set of simple text files. By default, the program creates a summary page that has a 12-up view of all the schedules, and detail pages for each of the individual schedules (these are about 8 inches square).

Example

This is an example of the layout of an input file (called '103_4320.txt'):

M,12:05 301     Ojalvo    14:00
M,14:25 302     Carmody   16:20
M,16:35 303     Ojalvo    18:30
M,19:05 304     N/A       21:00

T,7:45  305     Carmody    9:40
T,9:55  306     Zeng      11:50
T,12:05 307     Zeng      14:00
...

and so on...

Input files must be named in the form <lab num>_<room num>.txt. The first column has a comma (',') with no space on either side separating the day of the week and the start time. Times are in 24-hour format. Columns are separated by any amount of tabs or spaces but cannot span lines. Lines may begin with an octothorpe/hash/pound-sign ('#') and they will be ignored. Blank lines are also allowed, so please include them between days for readability.

To run the file just execute it from the command line (it takes no arguments):

[cwilson@trogdor]$ chmod +x scheduler.py 
[cwilson@trogdor]$ ./scheduler.py 
Generating summary in [summary.ps]...DONE
Generating individual in [103_4320.ps]...DONE
Generating individual in [104_3328.ps]...DONE
Generating individual in [201_4314.ps]...DONE
Generating individual in [207_4310.ps]...DONE

Download

• zip scheduler.zip

• tarball scheduler.tgz

Please ignore the .git/ directory in these archive files, this is for version control and can be ignored (unless you want to send me patches ).

Bugs/Questions/Comments

Please contact cwilson@physics.wisc.edu