SMS Inbox statistics for Series 60 mobile phones

Filed under: Blog — krkhan @ 8:03 pm

Self-indulgence is what I do best. It usually results in me trying to figure out random statistics about my personal life; e.g., graphs about which hours of day I’m mostly awake on and pie-charts about my bathroom habits. Such stuff doesn’t only make me feel more important than I actually am, but also polishes my fundamental math skills which were lost while trying to calculate average number of viruses a Windows user is hit by on an yearly basis.

Texting is what I do second best. Combine the two of my most productive practices and the need emerges of having a way to produce useless statistics about my cell phone’s inbox. This is where PyS60 comes to the rescue. In my previous post I praised Python’s s** appeal. Here’s the demonstration:

Total time spent with Python: Less than a week
Total time spent with PyS60: Less than a minute
Total time spent with Symbian development: Less than never

And still, even a total n00b like me could easily accomplish what he wanted to, using only the library reference manual and 70 lines of understandable code:

inboxstats.py

"""Script for printing trivial statistics about inbox, such as:
	Number of texts
	Number of unique contacts who sent the texts
	Number of texts sent by respective contacts
"""
 
__author__ = "Kamran Riaz Khan <krkhan@inspirated.com>"
__version__ = "$Revision: 0.1 $"
__date__ = "$Date: 2009/05/10 15:30:00 $"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2009 Kamran Riaz Khan"
__license__ = "Python"
 
import appuifw
import e32
import inbox
 
def exit_key_handler():
	"Release app_lock."
	app_lock.signal()
 
def inbox_stats():
	"""Parse the inbox statistics,
	Returns the dictionary:
		sms-count : Number of texts
		sms-contacts: Dictionary with the pairs:
			contact-name : Number of texts from contact"""
	cur_inbox = inbox.Inbox()
	messages = cur_inbox.sms_messages()
	contacts = {}
 
	for i in messages:
		address = cur_inbox.address(i)
		if contacts.has_key(address):
			contacts[address] = contacts[address] + 1
		else:
			contacts[address] = 1
 
	return {
		"sms-count" :  len(messages),
		"sms-contacts" :  contacts
		}
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
	content = appuifw.Text()
	appuifw.app.title = u'Inbox Stats'
	appuifw.app.body = content
	appuifw.app.exit_key_handler = exit_key_handler
 
	stats = inbox_stats()
	statsmap = (
		(u"SMS Count", unicode(stats["sms-count"])),
		(u"Unique Contacts", unicode(len(stats["sms-contacts"]))),
		)
 
	for i in statsmap:
		content.style = appuifw.STYLE_BOLD
		content.add(i[0] + u": ")
		content.style = 0
		content.add(i[1] + u"n")
 
	content.add(u"n")
	for k, v in stats["sms-contacts"].iteritems():
		content.style = appuifw.STYLE_BOLD
		content.add(k + u": ")
		content.style = 0
		content.add(unicode(v) + u"n")
 
	app_lock = e32.Ao_lock()
	app_lock.wait()

Which gives me:

Inbox Stats Screenshot

Tags: Code, Inbox, Inbox Stats, Nokia, Open Source, PyS60, Python, Series 60, SMS, Statistics, Symbian, Technology

Comments (4)

I see some familiar names…:p

Comment by Haali — May 10, 2009 @ 8:36 pm

I blurred out the first names exactly because of people like you :P .

Comment by krkhan — May 10, 2009 @ 9:11 pm

o_O!!!

Comment by JF-17 thunder... — May 10, 2009 @ 9:16 pm

[…] Previous version hung up while calculating the statistics. The new version dispatches a thread for the dirty work and keeps the user interface responsive with a “Processing” notification. […]

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