Calendars and recurring events

[Kevin Dahlhausen]

> I'd like the user to be able to specify "repeat once a year", "repeat
> until ddmmyyyy", "repeat every two weeks", "repeat first Monday of the
> month" etc etc.

I've given some thought to this as well.  There's a program called
'pcal' that generates calendars from event files.   One might wrap the
relevant source of pcal w/a SWIG wrapper and generate a python
extension that handles the date parsing / validation.