My Script for editing Zim Diary in simple text editor

z.py

import argparse
import subprocess
from datetime import date, timedelta
from os import path
from shutil import os
from time import sleep
import sys
import re

import zim_datetimetz as tz

NOTES_PATH = "/home/ray/Notebooks/Notes"
PREFIX = "Journal/"
TEMPLATE = f"""Content-Type: text/x-zim-wiki
Wiki-Format: zim 0.6
Creation-Date: {tz.now().isoformat()}

====== {date.today().day} ======
{date.today().strftime('%A %d. %B %Y')}

"""

if __name__ == "__main__":
    argv = sys.argv
    is_default_date = True
    if len(argv) > 1:
        match = re.match('[\d]+$', argv[1])
        if match:
            is_default_date = False
            dest_date = date.today() - timedelta(days=int(argv[1]))
            note_path = PREFIX + dest_date.strftime("%Y/%m/%d")
        else:
            note_path = sys.argv[1].replace(':', '/')
    else:
        note_path = PREFIX + date.today().strftime("%Y/%m/%d")

    abs_path = NOTES_PATH + '/' + note_path + '.txt'

    if len(argv) == 1:
        dirs_path, _, _ = abs_path.rpartition('/')
        os.makedirs(dirs_path, exist_ok=True)

    print(abs_path)
    if not path.exists(abs_path) and is_default_date:
        with open(abs_path, 'w') as f:
            f.write(TEMPLATE)

    if path.exists(abs_path):
        # proc = subprocess.Popen(["mousepad", "-o", "window", abs_path])
        proc = subprocess.Popen(["geany", "-t", abs_path])
        print("pid= ", proc.pid)