VertiCal

vertical.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# VertiCal: A slim monthly calendar (that's perfect for GeekTool)
# by Rob Dumas
# Copyright (c) 2012 GNU Public License version 3.
# See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html for details on this license.

import sys
import datetime
import calendar

# Get the current date and create our vertiCal.
today = datetime.date.today()
vertiCal = []

# Create a calendar object, whose weeks start on Sunday.
cal = calendar.Calendar(6)

# Set a variable for the day.
for i in cal.itermonthdays2( today.year, today.month ):
  if   i[1] == 0:
    theday = "Mon"
  elif i[1] == 1:
    theday = "Tue"
  elif i[1] == 2:
    theday = "Wed"
  elif i[1] == 3:
    theday = "Thu"
  elif i[1] == 4:
    theday = "Fri"
  elif i[1] == 5:
    theday = "Sat"
  elif i[1] == 6:
    theday = "Sun"
  else:
    print "Error: Day of week is not between 0 and 6."
  
  # Make sure the date is nonzero before appending to our list.
  if i[0] != 0:
    
    # ANSI codes:
    # 'black':      '0;30',   'bright gray':      '0;37',
    # 'blue':       '0;34',   'white':            '1;37',
    # 'green':      '0;32',   'bright blue':      '1;34',
    # 'cyan':       '0;36',   'bright green':     '1;32',
    # 'red':        '0;31',   'bright cyan':      '1;36',
    # 'purple':     '0;35',   'bright red':       '1;31',
    # 'yellow':     '0;33',   'bright purple':    '1;35',
    # 'dark gray':  '1;30',   'bright yellow':    '1;33',
    # 'normal':     '0'
    startofline = ""                 # empty by default
    default     = '''\033[1;37m'''   # white by default
    highlighted = '''\033[0;33m'''   # yellow
    endofline   = ''' \033[0m'''     # return to normal at EOL
    
    separator = ""
    monthlen = len( today.strftime( "%B" ) )
    if monthlen < 6: monthlen = 6
    for d in range( monthlen ):
      separator += "-"
    
    if i[0] == today.day:
      startofline = highlighted
      spacer = " "
    else:
      startofline = default
      spacer = " "
    
    thestring = startofline + theday + spacer
    # At this point, thestring should look something like:
    # \033[1;37mMon  (normal)
    # \033[0;33mTue  (highlighted)
    
    # Add an extra space to the line if the date is a single digit.
    if 1 <= i[0] <= 9: thestring += " "
    
    # Add the date to thestring.
    thestring += str(i[0]) + endofline
    # At this point, thestring should look something like:
    # \033[1;37mMon  9\033[0m (normal)
    # \033[0;33mTue 10\033[0m (highlighted)
    
    vertiCal.append(thestring)

# Print it all out.
print highlighted + today.strftime( "%B\n%Y" ) + endofline
print default + separator + endofline
for item in vertiCal: print item

Thank you! This was really helpful.

Hi Rob, love this script, been using it for years. However I updated to MacOS Monterey and it stopped working, even though Geektool still functions, the script stopped working. Im running Python3 on Monterey. I tired changing the path to Python3 to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated. Perhaps I can buy you a beer, or a coffee via PayPal. Cheers!