commit daa59af8253d930a5890eac5adfb195498ab2132
Author: Alex Selimov <alex@alexselimov.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 8 23:00:31 2023 -0500

    Implement board class and functionality for parsing markdown files to extract board structure

diff --git a/src/board.py b/src/board.py
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+""" This module contains classes and functions to contain the kanban board information """
+
+class Board:
+    def __init__(self):
+        """ Initialize the Board class, this class has three important class variables. 
+        These are:
+        self.sprint | str - name of the current sprint
+        self.columns | list(str) - columns in kanban board
+        self.tasks | list(list(str)) - tasks in each column
+
+        """
+        self.sprint = None
+        self.columns = list()
+        self.tasks = list()
+
+
+    def parse_md(self, file):
+        """ Upon starting the code we need to parse the markdown file which contains our board 
+        information
+
+        Arguments: 
+        file - the path to the markdown file containing the board information
+        """
+        
+        with open(file,'r') as f:
+            for line in f:
+                item_type = line.split(' ')[0]
+                # Assign sprint 
+                if item_type == '#':
+                    # If sprint has already been defined we should exit the loop
+                    if self.sprint:
+                        break
+
+                    # Otherwise assign it
+                    try:
+                        self.sprint = ' '.join(line.split(' ')[1:])
+
+                    except IndexError:
+                        # If a sprint title is not defined we default it to ' ' which we process 
+                        # later
+                        self.sprint=' '
+                
+                # Define a new column and add a list to the tasks variable that corresponds to that
+                # column
+                elif item_type == "##":
+                    self.columns.append(' '.join(line.split(' ')[1:]))
+                    self.tasks.append(list())
+
+                # Now add the task to the list structures
+                elif item_type == "-":
+                    self.tasks[-1].append(' '.join(line.split(' ')[1:]))
+
+
+    def print_board_items(self):
+        for col, tasks in zip(self.columns, self.tasks):
+            print(col, tasks)
+
+