Non-official Mathematicians Of The Day output from website
Project description
MOTD
Retrieve famous 'Mathematicians Of The Day' from http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Day_files/Year.html
Disclaimer: This package is not supported by the University of St-Andrews. This is not an official package!
Output's format is JSON.
0.2
Modify to English words command and method names
Usage as a library
Minimal example
>>> import motd >>> motd.motd() <motd.motd.motd object at 0x7fd2675eb550> >>> motd.motd().out() '{"30/12": [{"year": 1869, "fname": "Emilie", "name": "MARTIN", "event": "birth"}, {"year": 1897, "fname": "Stanis\\u0142aw", "name": "SAKS", "event": "birth"}, {"year": 1691, "fname": "Robert", "name": "BOYLE", "event": "death"}, {"year": 1932, "fname": "Eliakim", "name": "MOORE", "event": "death"}, {"year": 1947, "fname": "Alfred North", "name": "WHITEHEAD", "event": "death"}, {"year": 1956, "fname": "Heinrich", "name": "SCHOLZ", "event": "death"}, {"year": 1978, "fname": "Mark Aronovich", "name": "NAIMARK", "event": "death"}, {"year": 1982, "fname": "Philip", "name": "HALL", "event": "death"}]}' >>>
Options
The constructor admits two optional arguments:
day
specifying date using a string formated asDD/MM
(default is the current system day)delta
specifying the number of days before (negative integer) or after (positivie integer)day
value. (default is 0)
>>> import motd >>> motd.motd('01/01').out() '{"01/01": [{"year": 1803, "fname": "Guglielmo", "name": "LIBRI", "event": "birth"}, ...
>>> import motd >>> motd.motd(delta=1).out() '{"31/12": [{"year": 1856, "fname": "William", "name": "THOMSON", "event": "birth"}, ...
>>> import motd >>> motd.motd('01/01', delta=-2).out() '{"30/12": [{"year": 1869, "fname": "Emilie", "name": "MARTIN", "event": "birth"}, ...
>>> import motd >>> motd.motd(day='01/01', delta=-2).out() '{"30/12": [{"year": 1869, "fname": "Emilie", "name": "MARTIN", "event": "birth"}, ...
Usage in standalone app (code below)
How-to use it
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Copy next code content in a
motd
file. -
Change eventually the shebang line and make the file executable
chmod 755 motd
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Move it in a path known by your shell. For example:
~/.local/bin
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Session example
$ motd 1869 birth Emilie MARTIN 1897 birth Stanisław SAKS 1691 death Robert BOYLE 1932 death Eliakim MOORE 1947 death Alfred North WHITEHEAD 1956 death Heinrich SCHOLZ 1978 death Mark Aronovich NAIMARK 1982 death Philip HALL $ motd -d 01/01 1803 birth Guglielmo LIBRI 1878 birth Agner ERLANG 1886 birth Alexander Barrie GRIEVE 1894 birth Satyendranath BOSE 1905 birth Stanisław MAZUR 1912 birth Boris Vladimirovich GNEDENKO 1923 birth Daniel GORENSTEIN 1924 birth Jacques DIXMIER 1931 birth Sergei Ivanovich ADIAN 1748 death Johann BERNOULLI 1787 death Anastácio da CUNHA ... $ motd -d 01/01 -1 1856 birth William THOMSON 1872 birth Volodymyr LEVYTSKY 1896 birth Carl SIEGEL 1916 birth Douglas NORTHCOTT 1937 birth Vladimir MAZ'YA 1945 birth Leonard ADLEMAN 1952 birth Vaughan JONES 1610 death Ludolph Van CEULEN 1659 death János APÁCZAI 1679 death Giovanni Alfonso BORELLI 1719 death John FLAMSTEED 1894 death Thomas STIELTJES 1912 death Robert FERGUSON 1944 death Nikolai Evgrafovich KOCHIN 1956 death Edwin P ADAMS 1962 death Charles Galton DARWIN 1982 death Kurt FRIEDRICHS
Further you can pipe with sort
command.
You can also change source code of the app to output different lines.
Standalone app code
#!/usr/bin/python3 __author__ = "David COBAC" __date__ = 20191230 import motd import json import argparse parseur_args = argparse.ArgumentParser( description="""Mathematicians Of The Day from website http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Day_files/Year.html not an official package""") parseur_args.add_argument('-d', '--day', help='DD/MM') parseur_args.add_argument('delta', nargs='?', default='+0') args = parseur_args.parse_args() m = motd.motd(args.day, args.delta) dico = json.loads(m.sortie()) for k in dico: # print(k) for entree in dico[k]: s = str(entree['year']) s += " " s += entree['event'] s += " " s += entree['fname'] s += " " s += entree['name'] # print(s)
about
motd
is rather an attempt to publish on the PyPi
packages
index than a fully completed python project, I do not recommend
to use it for professionnal purpose. You have to consider this
package as an experiment.
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