Unable to save or add contact

[clark]

All of the examples I can find online make it look easy, but I can’t get it to work. ‘save()’ always returns false.

What am I doing wrong?

import contacts

print(("Authorized:", contacts.is_authorized()))
p = contacts.Person()
p.first_name = "Johnny"
p.last_name = "Ray"
print(("add_person:", contacts.add_person(p)))
print(("save:", contacts.save()))```

[cvp]

@clark test gives

('Authorized:', True)
('add_person:', True)
('save:', True)

And John Ray is added

Be careful, several runs create several contacts with the same name

Wait perhaps some time before to check If exists

[clark]

Thanks for the response.

I’m baffled.

I waited a while. I waited overnight. I went to iCloud on my laptop and checked there.

Also, I’m unable to do a simple edit on an existing Person.

There’s something fundamentally wrong on my end.

[cvp]

@clark you are sure that in iOS settings, Pythonista is authorized to access to contacts ?

[clark]

I dbl-checked that. Pythonista has access to Contacts & iCloud.

Is there a way to get the error code, other than just a False return from the Contacts.save() ?

[clark]

*** SOLVED ***

I uninstalled / reinstalled Pythonista.
This time I got the prompt to authorize access to Contacts.

Sometimes I wonder about myself :-/

Thanks for the help.

[cvp]

@clark 👍

[eddo888]

I am having difficulties as well, I am changing a phone number and it doesnt save even though save sais true and is_authorised is true.

	print(("Authorized:", contacts.is_authorized()))

	pattern = re.compile('^(0([2346789])|\(0([2346789])\))')
	for person in contacts.get_all_people():
		if person.full_name != 'David Edson': continue
		#print person.full_name
		
		for p in range(len(person.phone)):
			t_phone = person.phone[p]
			l_phone = list(t_phone)
			number = str(l_phone[1])
			match = pattern.match(number)
			if match:
				changed = pattern.sub('+61 %s'%match.group(2),number)
				print(number, changed)
				l_phone[1] = changed
				print l_phone
				t_phone = tuple(l_phone)
				print t_phone
				person.phone[p] = t_phone
				
		print person.phone
	print('save:',contacts.save())
	

with the output like this

('Authorized:', True)
('0408 680 808', '+61 408 680 808')
[u'_$!<Mobile>!$_', '+61 408 680 808']
(u'_$!<Mobile>!$_', '+61 408 680 808')
[(u'_$!<Mobile>!$_', u'0408 680 808')]
('save:', True)

[cvp]

@eddo888 did you wait some time before checking it has been saved?

[eddo888]

yup, 1 hour now, the johhny ray example saved instantly, can we edit a contact and expect save to work ?

[cvp]

@eddo888 Sorry, I didn't read correctly your post 😢. Thus the problem is not the save but your code

[cvp]

Your last print shows that person.phone did not change

[cvp]

This seems to work, if your contact has only one phone

                print 'before', person.phone
                #person.phone[p] = t_phone
                person.phone = [t_phone]
                print 'after', person.phone

[eddo888]

cool, thanks, there must be a setter property on person.phones that does the work,
changes to bits of the phone list are not seen unless you do person.phone = <updated list>