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

[Marcin Komorowski]

Hey All, 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: #!/usr/bin/env /usr/bin/pythonw from appscript import * from sys import stdout appCal = app( 'iCal' ) todos = appCal.calendars.filter(its.title != '').todos # Iterate flattened list, builing a local dictionary of dictionaries, by uid local_tasks = {} for task in [ todo for cal in todos() for todo in cal ]:     uid = task.uid.get()     local_tasks[uid] = {             "completion_date" : task.completion_date.get(),                  "due_date"        : task.due_date.get(),                         "priority"        : task.priority.get(),                         "sequence"        : task.sequence.get(),                         "stamp_date"      : task.stamp_date.get(),                       "summary"         : task.summary.get(),                          "description"     : task.description.get(),                      "uid"             : task.uid.get(),                              "url"             : task.url.get(),                          }     stdout.write('.')     stdout.flush() stdout.write('\n') print repr( local_tasks ) stdout.write( "%d tasks\n" % len( local_tasks ) ) 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? Thank You, Marcin

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