I'm very new to Python, and I've made a small program/script that will allow me to stream specific files at a given time.

My idea is that I have a .csv file for each day, with one row for each movie/tv show i want to watch and a cron job that checks every 30 minutes (at :00 and :30). If the job finds any row that matches the current time, then it will play the file given in the row.

As it is now, it has been configured to my installation of Mac OS High Sierra, using VLC as player. Since i've split the config out to a seperate file, I'm hoping it will be easy to setup on another environment (e.g. a Raspberry Pi)

I've split things into three seperate files (all located in the same folder), one of the files being a config file.

cron.py is the file, that is executed by the cron job.

import tvshow
import config

tvShowFile = tvshow.getTodaysFilename()
time = tvshow.getTime()
print ("Scanning file %s for %s" % (tvShowFile, time))
row = tvshow.scanFileForTime(tvShowFile, time)

if(row):
    urlColIndex = config.csvIndexes['url']
    streamUrl = row[urlColIndex]
    print("Executing app:" + config.apppath)
    print("URL:" + streamUrl)
    try:
        tvshow.show(streamUrl)
    except Exception as e:
        print ("Something went wrong:" + str(e))
else:
    print("No show at time %s" % time)

tvshow.py is the file with all the actual stuff

from datetime import datetime
import config
import csv
import config
from subprocess import call

def getTodaysFilename():
    filename = datetime.now().strftime(config.fileTimeFormat)
    return config.filepath + "/" + filename + "." + config.extension

def getTime():
    return datetime.now().strftime(config.hourMinuteFormat)

def getFileContent(filename):
    lines = []
    with open(filename) as csvfile:
        csvContent = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter = ',')
        for row in csvContent:
            lines.append(row)
    return lines
        
def scanFileForTime(filename, time):
    timeColIndex = config.csvIndexes['time']
    content = getFileContent(filename)
    for row in content:
        if(row[timeColIndex] == time):
            return row

def compileArguments(streamUrl):
    arguments = []
    arguments.append(config.apppath)
    arguments.append(streamUrl)
    for item in config.appArguments:
        arguments.append(item)
    return arguments

def show(streamUrl):
    arguments = compileArguments(streamUrl)
    call(arguments)

config.py is the configuration

apppath = '/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC'
filepath = '/Users/Shared/tvshow'
fileTimeFormat = "%Y_%m_%d"
hourMinuteFormat = "%H:%M"
extension = 'csv'
csvIndexes = dict(
    time = 0,
    title = 1,
    url = 2
)
appArguments = [
    '--fullscreen', 
    '--no-loop', 
    '--play-and-exit'
]

Tv show listings sample file - The "title" is not used for anything and could be left out.

"19:47","Big Buck Bunny","http://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4"

Any feedback on the code would be appreciated.