--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/upload/workshops.py	Wed Jan 20 14:19:50 2010 +0530
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import vobject
+import urllib
+from datetime import date
+
+def workshop_name():
+    """
+    Reading the ical from fossee.in
+    and generating a option field for 
+    selecting particular workshop.
+    Disabling the registration when 
+    number of days are less then 5 and
+    enabling registration when workshop 
+    is within 30 days.
+    """
+    eventList = []
+    #disable this when we are deploying it!
+    proxies = {'http': 'http://fossee:Python321@10.101.1.1:80'}
+    eventPage = urllib.urlopen('http://fossee.in/event/ical', proxies=proxies).read()    
+    parsedCal = vobject.readOne(eventPage)    
+    for event in parsedCal.components():
+        eventDate = event.dtstart.value.date()
+	daysLeft = eventDate - date.today()
+	if daysLeft.days > 3 and daysLeft.days < 31:
+            eventList += (tuple((event.summary.value,event.summary.value)),)    
+    return tuple(eventList)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print workshop_name()                             
+
+