tweaking the screen script to avoid errors in the event descriptions

screen/televex.py

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ now = datetime.datetime.now()
 
 while True:
 
-	#os.system("toilet --gay -w 125 -W --filter border:gay \ \ \ \ \ VARIA\ \ \ \ \ ")
 	os.system(f"{ PYTHON } tools/ascii-art-but-with-unicode/repeated_sinus_amplitude_variation.py | lolcat -a -d 1")
 	print("")
 	time.sleep(1)
@@ -29,6 +28,9 @@ while True:
 	print("")
 	time.sleep(10)
 
+	# Avoid double posts
+	used = []
+
 	for c in gcal.walk():
 
 		if c.name == "VEVENT":
@@ -40,30 +42,39 @@ while True:
 
 				# An attempt to keep TeleVex running throughout the night
 				# (even if the Multifeeder/server is not available)
+				# --- works ---
 				try:
 					url = 'https://multi.vvvvvvaria.org/API/latest/25'
 					response = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
 					multifeeder = json.loads(response)
 
 				except:
-
 					multifeeder = []
 					os.system("toilet -f script -w 125 --gay Zzz... the server sleeps.")
 
 				for post in multifeeder:
 
+					if post["summary"] not in used:
+
 						# Clean up the title of the RSS & Calendar
 						title_check = title.lower().strip().replace('\n','')
 						rss_title_check = post["title"].lower().strip().replace('\n','')
 
 						if title_check == rss_title_check:
 
+							# add this post to the "used" list above
+							used.append(post["summary"])
+
 							os.system("toilet --gay -w 125 -W --filter border:gay  \ \ \ COMING UP\ \ \ \ ")
 							print("")
 							time.sleep(1)
 
 							description = pypandoc.convert_text(post["summary"], 'plain', format='html',extra_args=['--columns=64'])
 
+							# Write description to a tmp file
+							with open("description.tmp","w") as tmp:
+								tmp.write(description)
+
 							# Send the event to the terminal·
 
 							# Title
@@ -72,20 +83,13 @@ while True:
 							time.sleep(1)
 
 							# Date
-						print(date.strftime("%A %d %B %Y (%H:%M:%S)"))
+							event_date = date.strftime("%A %d %B %Y (%H:%M:%S)")
+							os.system(f"echo '{ event_date }' | lolcat -a -d 1")
 							print("")
 							time.sleep(1)
 
 							# Description
-						lines = [line for line in description.split('\n')]
-						for line in lines:
-							# HACKY!!!
-							line = line.replace('\n', '')
-							#line = line.replace('(', '(')
-							#line = line.replace(')', ')')
-							#line = line.replace(';', '\;')
-							#line = line.replace('"', '\"')
-							#line = line.replace("'", "\'")
-							os.system(f"echo '{ line }' | lolcat -a -d 1")
+							os.system("cat description.tmp | lolcat -a -d 1")
+
 							print("")
-						time.sleep(3)
+							time.sleep(10)