One of those moments where an interview question turns into a research project, or is it really a bake off? The simple problem is demonstrate an algorithm to intersect two lists of numbers, fundamentally it’s a question about using modern interpreted languages and their associative array bits to make a simple …

Read More

Working with django 1.0 and google app engine… Wanted to set every view on my admin page to have admin permission. 1def perm_admin(rootfunc) : 2 import sys 3 module = sys.modules.get(rootfunc.module) 4 for key, value in module.dict.items() : 5 if type(value) is types.FunctionType and key[0] != '' and …

Read More

[originally posted to comp.lang.python — but worth repeating] Ruby has been getting pummeled for the last year or more on the performance subject. They’ve been working hard at improving it. From my arm chair perspective Python is sitting on it’s laurels and not taking this as seriously as it probably should. In general …

Read More

Way to carried away with this… here’s the SpiderMonkey version (as opposed to the rhino) one. Biggest complaint is the File object is a bit of a pain to use… 1fd = File('p.test'); 2fd.open("read",'text'); 3 4mre = /^MULTI_TOKEN\s+(\S+)\s+(.)\t?\s(\d+)\s*$/; 5sre = …

Read More

When it’s intertwined — ok, bad joke. I’m currently “fighting” (playing) around with the python storm ORM system and had the following problem (not the real code, but demonstration). What I wanted to say is: 1find(..., employee_title == 'CEO') However this didn’t work, I had to say: 1find(..., …

Read More

Had a 7GB text file that I needed to run some parsing on (to prepare for a DB import). As part of my habit I pulled out perl and whipped up a quick program to parse and generate some loadable files. While watching it run I got to thinking about … why … why perl (yes, I know habbits are hard to break). So while watching …

Read More

I admit it, I’ve been working on my middleware python server. Here’s the basic design of the app at this point: PHP <— JSON-RPC —-> Python <–> MySql The assumption is that as things grow, you’ve already defined a good layer to scale at and have a reasonable Object abstraction from the front end. At one …

Read More