A couple people will know that over the summer I tried my hand at programming. When I was about 10 or 11, my Dad tried to teach me a little BASIC, but I never really took to it. However, seeing how much David enthuses/rambles about Python, I thought I’d try my hand at the basics. I’m never going to get that far with it, as it really is only something I have a go at occasionally, and I don’t really have anything I need it for; it’s just for playing around with.
I therefore introduce Lullaby. At the start of the summer, I came up with an idea for something that would essentially function like a nap-timer; play quiet music for n minutes, then loud music for another period of time. It was essentially a teaching tool; David guided me through the python tutorial with the aim of being able to write the bits for this. I last worked on this at least a month ago, and I’m pretty sure I debugged it (a month seems like a hell of a long time ago). I was planning to play around with the first input to make it a little more user-friendly, but that seems unlikely to happen now. For those people who already know python, this will look breathtakingly simple (or breathtakingly wrong); for those who don’t do programming, it’ll look like gobbledegook. However, hopefully going public with my programming will prompt me into picking it up again.
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#imports
import os
import sys
import time
#inputs and calls
def input_seconds():
"""asks user for inputs and sorts into minutes or seconds. Returns countdown timer in seconds"""
input = raw_input("Set length of timer")
#(append h for hours, m for minutes or s for seconds) eg '1h 5m 10s'
input2 = raw_input("Is this minutes or seconds?")
if 'm' in input2:
timer = int(input) * 60
else:
timer = int(input)
return timer
def input_playlist():
"""allows user to choose playlist"""
playlist = raw_input("Which playlist do you want?")
return playlist
def play_amarok(timer, playlist):
"""starts amarok playing the defined playlist"""
if 'pause' in playlist:
command = 'dcop amarok player stop'
else:
command = 'dcop amarok playlistbrowser loadPlaylist'
command = command + " '" + playlist +"'"
os.system(command)
print "loading", playlist
sleep(5)
print "playing"
next()
sleep(timer)
pause()
def next():
"""plays next song in amarok"""
os.system('dcop amarok player next')
def play():
"""starts amarok playing"""
os.system('dcop amarok player play')
def stop():
"""stops amarok playing"""
os.system('dcop amarok player stop')
def pause():
"""pauses amarok
WARNING: this may not actually work. use stop() instead."""
os.system('dcop amarok player playPause')
def pause_amarok(timer):
"""Pauses Amarok for length of time specified in timer"""
pause()
sleep(timer)
play()
def sleep(timer):
"""runs timer for defined time and counts down"""
for countdown in range(timer, 0, -1):
print countdown,
sys.stdout.flush()
time.sleep(1)
print
def main():
"""ask for playlist and time, ask whether user wants to include another lot of playlist and time, ask for these inputs and store in a list. Keep asking for inputs until user says they do not want to add more. Once all inputs have been given, play playlists for given times sequentially."""
subsequent_playlist = 'yes'
pairs = []
while 'yes' in subsequent_playlist:
playlist= input_playlist()
timer = input_seconds()
pair = (playlist, timer)
pairs.append(pair)
subsequent_playlist = raw_input("Select another playlist? Yes/no")
for pair in pairs:
(playlist, timer) = pair
play_amarok(timer, playlist)
main()
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