The Refcards-System Redux

18:52 2018-06-21

- As you may know, I have been working on my "Refcards-System" for years now. I haven't made much progress, but I still have made some progress;
- This latest iteration is all about "writing" to a .csv file; the idea is that a .csv file can be "imported" into a relational database or else opened up as an "Excel" file, making it rather interoperable;

	import csv
	import time
	t = time.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M')
	with open(t+'.csv', 'wb') as csvfile:
	writer = csv.writer(csvfile)
	writer.writerow(['Time', 'Context', 'Notes', 'References'])
	writer.writerow([time.asctime(), raw_input('Context: '), raw_input('Notes: '), raw_input('References: ')])
	csvfile.close()

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- So what we have is simple. First I create the "filename" using some magical "time" module tricks. I want the filename to basically be the current timestamp, + the .csv file ending;
- Then basically I create the first "row" which are the "fieldnames" in the .csv file, and then I write the second "row" which is my content;
- Notice that I am using "raw_input", in Python that allows me to enter text directly into the file, with a prompt;
- The point is really to have content in .csv format, which is portable, interoperable, and lightweight as well. It's also a format that has withstood the test of time.