Haircut

This Python script calculates basic statistics pulled from my haircut page.

Based on the original Gist created by Kyle Fox.

Sample Output

Number of haircuts recorded: 106 (Since October 10, 1998)
Shortest period between haircuts: 9 days (July 21, 2016 to July 30, 2016)
Longest period between haircuts: 120 days (August 11, 2007 to December 09, 2007)
Average period between haircuts: 74 days
Median period between haircuts: 73 days
Your last haircut was 82 days ago. (March 05, 2020)
You probably should’ve had a haircut 8 days ago. (May 18, 2020)

Requirements

• Python 2
• Beautiful Soup 4

Change Log

20230121

• Added fix for failed certificate verification related to the urllib2.py library

20220617

• Updated to Beautiful Soup 4
• Added html.parser argument to BeautifulSoup() constructor

20211130

• Added “User-agent” header to fix urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 406: Not Acceptable
• Standardized variable naming and value quoting because consistency

20201010

• Added calculation of the median period between haircuts

20200922

• Modified output for even more consistent display of days and dates
• Added newlines before and after output because readability

20200714

• Modified output for haircuts occuring one day ago

20200526

• Modified output for consistent display of days and dates
• Added more descriptive “next haircut” strings
• Added logic to display “day zero” status
• Updated URLs to use https

20180327

• Added note regarding Beautiful Soup requirement

20131109

• Set UTF-8 encoding

20131023

• Educated the apostrophes
• Minor edits and formatting tweaks

20121114

• Initial release as a Gist by Kyle Fox