Incorporation of checklists for cards

[WolfXeHD]

Hi,
great project! It might also be useful to incorporate checklists into cards. I checked and the basic python-api allows to do that already but your very convenient wrapper does not support it yet. If you give me a few pointers how to start I am happy to contribute.

[delucks]

Hey @WolfXeHD! I took a look at your fork of the project and I like the way you started to handle checklists there. I'm thinking modifying checklists in $EDITOR is a good first step. Maybe we could create a utility class to translate between a text-file representation of checklist items and the python API representation? I think something like this is natural:

- [ ] Checklist item 1
- [ ] Checklist item 2
- [x] Some of them are completed
- [ ] Deleting a line could remove the item from the checklist, and
- [ ] any new lines append new checklist items if they match this format

[WolfXeHD]

Hi @delucks !
Many thanks for your response! The idea of having a class doing the job of translating the text representation to the python API is very good.
My motivation to modify checklists based on $EDITOR was because I had a very long checklist which I wanted to break down into smaller lists which would have been very cumbersome with the browser-interface. With my current implementation, I was able to achieve that. However, it is not very fast which is due to the fact that at the end first, all checklists of the card are deleted and then the new parsed checklist(s) from the text-file are added with the python API item by item. This is also certainly something to improve upon.
I will look into creating a class for translating between text-file and python api. If you in the meantime have a good idea how to add the new checklists more effectively that would be great.
Cheers,
Tim