the thpinfo.com blogger archives (2007-2008)

Minimalistic Evolution phonebook extractor

If you're using Evolution as your E-Mail client and contact management application, and you like Python, here is a small snippet that allows you to dump out all phone numbers of your contacts to the console. Of course, with this code as a guide, you can produce even more useful applications ;)

What you need: Evolution, pygobject, evolution-python, Python (2.4 or higher) and some contacts in your contact list

#!/usr/bin/python

import evolution
import gobject

book = evolution.open_addressbook('default')

props = gobject.list_properties( evolution.EContact)
pp = [ p.name for p in props if 'phone' in p.name ]

for contact in book.get_all_contacts():
  gp = contact.get_property
  name = gp('file-as')
  numbers = ', '.join( [ gp(p) for p in pp if gp(p) ])
  if numbers:
      print ': '.join( [ name, numbers ])

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Comments

Thomas Perl (2007-10-13T16:33:00.000+02:00)
I'm now using an improved version of this code in smpy, which can be found here: http://thpinfo.com/2007/hacks/#smpy

Dernalis (2007-09-07T15:38:00.000+02:00)
Nice guide, thanks a lot....

but I'm going crazy to get data from GParamBoxed data like 'birth-date'

could you add some stuff like this to source code?

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Thomas Perl (thp at this domain); jabber: thp@jabber.org