This is a follow up to my previous show HPR2340, the improvement being I use the available STATS file from the hpr website rather than scraping the content from the HPR calendar page

Link to my original show HPR2340

http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=2340

Link to the excellent episode HPR1986 from Dave Morriss which references the stats file

http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1986/full_shownotes.html#example-2

Link to useful HPR Stats page

http://hackerpublicradio.org/stats.php

Snapshot contents (2017-06-23) of 'stats.txt' file which was actually called 'hpr_stats.txt' my mistake

Started: 11 years, 8 months, 19 days ago (2005-10-10)

Renamed HPR: 9 years, 5 months, 27 days ago (2007-12-31)

Total Shows: 2911

Total TWAT: 300

Total HPR: 2611

HPR Hosts: 286

Days to next free slot: 17

Hosts in Queue: 9

Shows in Queue: 14

Comments waiting approval: 0

Files on the FTP Server: 1

Number of Emergency Shows: 7

Days until show without media: 0

1498246151,369343750,299186950,2911,300,2611,286,17,9,14,0,1,7,0

Link to Meld the great visual diff and merge tool

http://meldmerge.org/

#!/usr/bin/env python3

### This is a scratchpad file I've created to try out snippets of code in python

# The script below is for use with Python 3

# This script should work out of the box on most systems running a version of Python 3

# If you happen to have a blinkstick lying about then your can uncomment the blinkstick module

# and uncomment the references at the bottom of the program that call the blinkstick functions

# Regrds, Mr X

# Imported modules

from time import sleep # used to pause program

#from blinkstick import blinkstick # used to control blinkstick nano attached to usb port of raspberry pi

import urllib.request # used to capture hpr webpage content to get the number of HPR shows in the que

import re # regular expressions, used to find sting in HPR webpage (get_hpr_que)

# These functions control a blink stick nano attached to my raspberry pi USB port #################

# They can be ignored or deleted if you don't have one

def bstick_off():

# Search for all attached blinksticks and turn them all off

for bstick in blinkstick.find_all():

bstick.turn_off() # Turn front blinkstick LED off

bstick.set_color(channel=0, index=1, name="black") # Turn rear blinkstick led off

print("Blinkstick: " + bstick.get_serial() + " turned off")

def bstick_on(colour):

# Turn blinkstick on and set led colour to string value stored in var colour

# valid colours are, black, silver, gray, white, maroon, red, purple, fuchsia, green, lime, olive, yellow, navy, blue, teal, aqua

for bstick in blinkstick.find_all():

bstick.set_max_rgb_value(30) # Sets max blinkstick RGB value to 15, makes LED dimm

bstick.set_color(name=colour) # Turn blinkstick on, var colour determines colour

print ("Blinkstick: " + bstick.get_serial() + " | Colour: " + bstick.get_color(color_format="hex") + " [" + colour + "]")

#hex

def bstick_on_random():

# Turn blinkstick on colour random

for bstick in blinkstick.find_all():

bstick.set_random_color()

print ("Blinkstick: " + bstick.get_serial() + " | Colour: " + bstick.get_color(color_format="hex"))

def bstick_blink_red():

# Flash blinkstick colour red

for bstick in blinkstick.find_all