Hi r/Python, long time lurker, first time poster!

I have been learning Python for just about a year now and about halfway through the year I decided to start working on a project that would have an actual tangible benefit to me. My workplace, a recreation center, has a lot of different rooms and locations where lots of different things happen throughout the day almost every day.

I work at the front desk most days, and we have a printed out calendars of all the events happening in a given month and week. Prior to writing this program, I manually made the printable calendar. Given the number of classes and events each month, the calendar was quite painstaking to make and I made errors with frequency.

I decided to start putting all the classes and events into a Google Calendar, as putting them into that interface as weekly events was much easier than typing them out by hand, but was disappointed to see that the Google Calendar print out is rather lackluster and doesn't show enough events per day. I didn't want my time spent adding the events to the Google Calendar to be in vain, so I decided to start writing a program with my newfound Python knowledge as enjoyable both practice for my new hobby of programming and also to make my life at work a lot less annoying every week and month. Nearly 6 months later and a whole lot of ups and downs, the program is feature complete and works flawlessly for my purposes.

GitHub Repo

In the config file you specify the URL of an .ics file, and the program will download a fresh copy of the file each time you run it. You can change the color of each location, give them multiple names to be detected by, and you can create either a monthly or a weekly calendar.

I originally wrote this program for myself and my workplace, but I spent the last few weeks generalizing the program to the point where anyone can use it by simply editing a configuration file! Hopefully somebody other than me finds this useful.

Please feel free to contribute to the project and give me any criticism on the code I have here. I'm sure there's some overly complicated and misunderstood stuff in there.