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54<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id1">About Stamper</a><a class="headerlink" href="#about-stamper" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
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58<li><a class="reference internal" href="#about-stamper" id="id1">About Stamper</a><ul>
59<li><a class="reference internal" href="#from-where-does-it-come-from" id="id2">From where does it come from?</a></li>
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68<p><a class="reference external" href="https://bitbucket.org/codigo23/stamper">Stamper</a> was born strongly inspired by the original <a class="reference external" href="http://repos.betabug.ch/stamp">stamp</a> tool written by
69<a class="reference external" href="http://betabug.ch">Sascha Welter</a> (aka <a class="reference external" href="http://betabug.ch">betabug</a>).</p>
70<p>The idea is quite simple:</p>
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72<li><p class="first">You <strong>stamp</strong> a time in a text file, recording that time as the time when
73you started working on something:</p>
74<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>2014-08-13 09:45 start
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78<li><p class="first">You <strong>stamp</strong> again once you have finished, providing something like an id
79(to identify a customer, project, whatever) and a description of what you
80did:</p>
81<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>2014-08-13 10:45 stamper writing documentation
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86<p>Those times are saved into a text file and afterwards, with a little bit of
87<a class="reference external" href="http://python.org">python</a> magic, you get some reports about the amount of time dedicated per
88day or id (for example).</p>
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91<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Enter the JSON</a><a class="headerlink" href="#enter-the-json" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
92<p>Betabug&#8217;s stamp tool records those times as lines in a text file. This is quite
93convenient because you can look into the file with traditional tools like <em>cat</em>,
94<em>head</em> or <em>tail</em>, or even open it with your favourite editor, and get
95information about the times you&#8217;ve spent working on something.</p>
96<p>But this comes <em>at a cost</em>, it needs some <em>ugly</em> parsing of the .txt file in the
97python code that calculates the statistics and reports, making it difficult/slow
98to perform certain tasks.</p>
99<p><strong>And here it comes JSON:</strong></p>
100<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format.
101It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse
102and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language,
103Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is
104completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to
105programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java,
106JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an
107ideal data-interchange language.
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110<p>(extracted from <a class="reference external" href="http://json.org">http://json.org</a>)</p>
111<p>Using a .json file instead of a txt file, we can export/import python data
112structures (like lists or dicts) easily into a text-like file. This means that
113we can still edit the file using a text editor, or check its contents using
114<em>cat</em>, <em>head</em> or <em>tail</em>, but we can forget about the parsing of the entries.</p>
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117<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">The tools</a><a class="headerlink" href="#the-tools" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
118<p><a class="reference external" href="https://bitbucket.org/codigo23/stamper">Stamper</a> comes with a variety of tools, but the most used ones are:</p>
119<ul class="simple">
120<li><strong>stamp:</strong> Use this to <em>stamp</em> times into the json file.</li>
121<li><strong>stamps:</strong> USe this to query the json file and obtain information about your
122stamped times.</li>
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126<p class="last">:doc:using</p>
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