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Because I have a PC right next to my Mac (I hate Windows, but until AutoDesk make Inventor for MacOS X…) I sometimes need to be able to check my diary - which I have recently converted to iCal.

Since the reason I am not on the Mac is because my Significant Other is using it, I need a non-gui, non-AppleScript way of checking what’s on for me today.

Being a refugee from BeOS, and having used various unix (and even VMS - the DOS of the mainframe world!) flavours, I had come across calendar. What I needed was a way to make calendar read from the iCal *.ics files. (Speaking of ICS, Google seems to think I am searching for Internet Connection Sharing. Grr!) Since the files themselves are quite easy to understand, I knocked up a quick python script. Called pycal.py, you can find it at pycal.py.