Create an iCal from items you should return to the Valbonne Mediathèque

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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
'''
Created on Mar 9, 2013

@author: y0n3l
'''
from datetime import datetime, date
from ftplib import FTP
from icalendar import Calendar, Event
from lxml.html.soupparser import fromstring
import mechanize
    
def getBooksReturnDatesFor(username, password, account):
    booksForReturn = []
    browser = mechanize.Browser()
    browser.open("http://www.mediatheque-casa.fr/mediatheque-casa.fr/")
    browser.select_form(name="form")
    browser["username"] = username
    browser["password"] = password
    browser.submit()
    response = browser.open("http://www.mediatheque-casa.fr/mediatheque-casa.fr/abonne/prets")
    root = fromstring(response)
    # get all the books 
    books = root.xpath("//div[@id='colContenuInner']//table//tr/td[position()=2]/a/text()")
    # then get all their info (if available)
    index=1
    for book in books:
        author = root.xpath("string(//div[@id='colContenuInner']//table//tr[position()=%i]/td[position()=3])" % (index+1))
        returnDate = root.xpath("string(//div[@id='colContenuInner']//table//tr[position()=%i]/td[@class='date_retour']/text())" % (index+1))
        date = datetime.strptime(returnDate.strip(),'%d/%m/%Y')
        index=index+1
        booksForReturn.append({"book":book,"author":author,"returnDate":date, 'account':account})
    return booksForReturn

def getICalForBooksReturnDates(returnDates):
    cal = Calendar()
    cal.add('version', '2.0')
    cal.add('X-WR-CALNAME', u'Mediathèque Valbonne')
    cal.add('X-WR-TIMEZONE', 'Europe/Paris')
    for item in returnDates:
        book = item['book']
        author = item['author']
        date = item['returnDate']
        account = item['account']
        event = Event()
        event.add('summary', "RENDRE: %s" % book)
        event.add('description', "Auteur: %s\nSur la carte de %s" % (author, account))
        event.add('location', u'Médiathèque, Valbonne, France')
        event['DTSTART']= date.strftime('%Y%m%d')
        event['DTEND']= date.strftime('%Y%m%d')
        event.add('class', 'PUBLIC')
        cal.add_component(event)
    return cal.to_ical()

if __name__=="__main__":
    print getBooksReturnDatesFor('X0000xxxxxx', 'password', 'Account for Y0n3l')