👷🏻‍♀️ delete old script and update readme + requirements

README.md

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-task-recurring-delete
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-Delete all overdue, recurring and duplicate taskwarrior tasks and keep only the
-first of a kind.
-
-task-recurring-postpone
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+# task-recurring-postpone
 Postpone recurring task dupes to tomorrow and keep only two per parent task.
 
 
 <hr/>
 
-Need the taskw Python bindings to run.  These are workarounds for this issue:
-https://bug.tasktools.org/browse/TW-1314.
+Needs the taskw Python bindings to run (`pip install -r requirements.txt`)

requirements.txt

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+taskw

task-recurring-delete

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-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-# Delete all overdue, recurring & duplicate taskwarrior tasks and keep only the
-# first of a kind.
-#
-# Needs the taskw Python bindings to run.
-
-__requires__ = ["taskw >= 0.8.3"]
-import pkg_resources
-
-from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
-from uuid import UUID
-
-import collections
-import datetime
-import os
-import pytz
-import taskw
-
-
-def task_delete(uuid):
-    """Delete the given task."""
-
-    assert isinstance(uuid, UUID)
-
-    # This is somewhat a hack, but as TaskWwarrior 2.4.0 does NOT disable
-    # the 'Do you want to delete all pending recurrences ...' confirmation
-    # on rc.confirmation=off, so this is necessary.
-    DEVNULL = open(os.devnull, 'wb')
-    p = Popen(['task', 'rc.confirmation=off', str(uuid), 'delete'],
-              stdin=PIPE, stdout=DEVNULL, stderr=STDOUT)
-    p.communicate(input=bytes('no', 'UTF-8'))
-
-
-w = taskw.TaskWarrior(marshal=True)
-tasks = w.load_tasks()
-
-
-# Only (over-)due and recurring tasks are considered for deletion:
-due_before = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
-due_before = due_before.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)
-recurring_tasks_due = [task for task in tasks['pending']
-                            if 'recur' in task
-                               and 'parent' in task
-                               and 'due' in task and task['due'] < due_before]
-
-# Delete all but the first of all (over-)due and duplicate tasks:
-parents = collections.Counter([task['parent']
-                               for task in recurring_tasks_due])
-for parent in parents:
-    count = parents[parent]
-    if count > 1:
-        dupe_tasks = [task for task in recurring_tasks_due
-                           if task['parent'] == parent]
-        dupe_tasks = sorted(dupe_tasks, key=lambda t: t['due'])
-
-        dupe_tasks_to_keep = dupe_tasks[0:1]
-        dupe_tasks_to_trash = dupe_tasks[1:]
-
-        print('Deleting {} duplicate due tasks: "{}"'.format(
-            len(dupe_tasks_to_trash), dupe_tasks_to_trash[0]['description']))
-        for task in dupe_tasks_to_trash:
-            task_delete(task['uuid'])