[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript with todos in iCal seams very slow

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2006-08-06 um 16:57 schrieb Marcin Komorowski:

> I am trying to generate a python internal structure (a dictionary  
> of dictionaries) with a copy of all todo data from iCal.  I got it  
> to work using the following code:
>
> The problem is that this appears to execute painstakingly slowly.   
> With 60 todo items in my iCal, the script takes just over 10  
> seconds to run.  My machine i a 2GHz Intel Core Duo iMac.
>
> Any idea how this could be sped up?

Just work with the calendar files directly, there are even Python  
libraries for that, e.g. itools:
http://www.ikaaro.org/itools
(Never worked with that, don't ask me.)

Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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