User:Inge Hoonte/captain tweet

After much circling around new ideas, I decided to just keep focusing on finishing Captain Tweet. Aymeric has helped me steadily progress. And I'm starting to understand dictionaries and strings better.

Some important things to note:

I changed the original dates. ideally I'd have this air on December 16, the first entry of the original log. But for the sake of the show now, I've changed it to June/July. So... in case you're wondering, that's why it's snowing in July. But I guess this could be the case, had the ship been sailing via the Arctic or Greenland.
The Weymouth, the ship that's tweeted from, was used to transport 11 parties of 1820 settlers from Portsmouth, England, to Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth), South-East Africa.
A big undertone of this project is of course migration, sailing the seas, colonialism, which isn't further explored. I needed to focus on advancing in my programming skills.

ORIGINAL LOG BY CAPTAIN TURNER, 1819/1820 Thurs 16 December 1819 – Portsmouth Harbour Am: Light breezes and clear 8: Do weather. Employed hoisting in provisions and other necessary duties. The settlers came on board at noon. Do weather. Employed stowing the hold. Mustered for Checques, discharged several of the crew. Employed stowing the holds. Midnight: Strong winds

Fri 17 December Am: Strong breezes with rain 8: Do weather. Employed cleaning decks and stowing chain cables. Do weather. Employed as before. Midnight: Do weather

Sat 18 December Am: Strong breezes and rain. Employed clearing lighter of provisions. Pm: More moderate employed cleaning decks. Midnight: Fine weather

CAPTAIN TWEET, 2011 06/16 01:00: Light breezes and clear 08:00: Ditto weather. Employed hoisting in provisions and other necessary duties. 15:00: The settlers came on board at noon. Ditto weather. Employed stowing the hold. 17:00: Mustered for Checques, discharged several of the crew. Employed stowing the holds. 23:59: Strong winds

06/17 01:00: Strong breezes with rain 08:00: Ditto weather. Employed cleaning decks and stowing chain cables. 15:00: Ditto weather. Employed as before. 23:59: Ditto weather

06/18 01:00: Strong breezes and rain. Employed clearing lighter of provisions. 15:00: More moderate employed cleaning decks. 23:59: Fine weather

CODE

#!/usr/bin/python
#from datetime import datetime

log = {}
journal = open("log.txt","r")
days = journal.read().split("\n\n")

for day in days:

daylog = day.split("\n") day = daylog.pop(0)

entries = {}

for entry in daylog: event = entry.split(" ") daytime = event.pop(0) entries[daytime] = " ".join(event)

log[day] = entries

#datetime.now()


print log['07/10']['06:00:']

Anomalies Born on Board, not mentioned in the Cpt Log, but present in the Master's Roll:

Jan 13 ___ Pedlar Jan 28 ___ Green Feb 07 ___ Reed Feb 20 ___ Biggar Feb 29 ___ Epsey Mar 08 ___ Godfrey Mar 10 ___ Usher Mar 22 ___ Hobbs DD 13 Apr Apr 07 ___ Sweetman Apr 26 ___ Bowker Apr 29 ___ Sanders DD 7 May May 18 ___ Cronk

References http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/weymouth.htm >> this is the source log by Captain Turner http://www.galapagos.to/TEXTS/BEAGLELOG.HTM http://www.wielingen1991.org/en/mission_/log_book.htm >> ship employed in war http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1218474/How-Captain-Cooks-ship-logs-helping-scientists-chart-global-climate-change.html

To Do:

update time in log to standardized 06:00 etc hours that Python can read
create new twitter account for the captain
make friends for the captain
put code and log on the server, run it from there
add to code: #check for date continuously and time, when there's a match, push message from log to captain's tweet feed

OLD CODE

#!/usr/bin/python

import twitter
import time
api = twitter.Api(username='...', password='...')

print('Starting...')

while 1 == 1:
       api.PostUpdate(getoutput('uptime'))
       print(getoutput('uptime'))
       time.sleep(3600)