I'm setting up a script to format a bunch of hockey schedules into .ics files, using python and the python package iCalendar.
When I set:
event.add('dtstart', game_datetime[i])
event.add('dtend', game_datetime[i]+timedelta(hours=i))
I get the following in the resultant .ics file:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141019T140500
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141019T160500
Clearly not ideal; it appears to be passing over the object and not the value. So when I try and set it using strftime() as following:
#event.add('dtstart', game_datetime[i].strftime('%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ'))
#event.add('dtend', (game_datetime[i]+timedelta(hours=i)).strftime('%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ'))
I get the following error:
File "D:\schedule_format.py", line 72, in <module>
event.add('dtstart', game_datetime[i].strftime('%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ'))
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\icalendar-3.9.dev0-py2.7.egg\icalendar\cal.py", line 171, in add
value = self._encode(name, value, parameters, encode)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\icalendar-3.9.dev0-py2.7.egg\icalendar\cal.py", line 123, in _encode
obj = klass(value)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\icalendar-3.9.dev0-py2.7.egg\icalendar\prop.py", line 276, in __init__
raise ValueError('You must use datetime, date, timedelta or time')
ValueError: You must use datetime, date, timedelta or time
So clearly I'm supposed to be using a datetime object, but apparently I'm not using it correctly?
i don't know what you have in game_datetime but i faced this problem like you and use like this for date type property and it's work:
from time import strftime,gmtime
from icalendar import Calendar,Parameters,Todo
import icalendar
from datetime import *
year = int(strftime("%Y", gmtime()))
month = int(strftime("%m", gmtime()))
day = int(strftime("%d", gmtime()))
hour = int(strftime("%H", gmtime()))
minute = int(strftime("%M", gmtime()))
second = int(strftime("%S", gmtime()))
temp = Todo()
temp.add('CREATED',datetime(year,month,day,hour,minute,second))
you should change 'CREATED' to date type you want