NatCap software team office hours rotations for September, 2021 trial period

rotate.py

"""Randomly generate office hours rotations for the defined dates.

This was brought up as a possible way of randomly picking office hours
assignments during the original trial run of office hours in September, 2021.
"""

import random

# Group Wednesday-to-following-Monday
# This is because of the labor day holiday on Monday the 6th that offsets the
# whole calendar.
DAYS_AND_WEEKS = [
    ('9/08', '9/13'),
    ('9/15', '9/20'),
    ('9/22', '9/27'),
]

NAMES = ['Dave', 'Doug', 'Emily', 'James']  # Alphabetical

for (wednesday, monday) in DAYS_AND_WEEKS:
    random.shuffle(NAMES)  # side effect: shuffles NAMES
    print(f"{wednesday}: {', '.join(NAMES[0:2])}")
    print(f"{monday}: {', '.join(NAMES[2:])}")