We are looking for a SDE for our team in El Campello, Alicante (Spain). The contact details and the offer itself is on the PDF below: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20600084/JobOffer_SDE-Aug2012.pdf We speak English, we speak Spanish. If you have fluency in any of both, you might apply to the offer. We are looking for passionate programmers who love […]
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Manso Hack: Speedup Google App Engine SDK SQLite Database
I was trying to initialize a local database using the Google App Engine SDK, and I was going crazy. –use_sqlite parameter was not even solving my problem. Inserts on the database were really slow, like 10 per second. A nightmare. OK, ok, it is an SDK, it emulates the server… it is intended to be […]
Manso Trick: Easy way to generate random hex string in Python
Generate a random string in hexadecimal is one of those things that you always have to do, from time to time. As far as I know, the easiest way to do this in python is to import uuid module and run the following code: uuid.uuid4().hex With the call above we have 32 hexadecimal characters string […]
MansoTrick: Convert 24h time string to 12h AM/PM format (Python)
Manso trick to convert from 24h time format to 12h (AM/PM) time format in Python def ampmformat (hhmmss): “”” This method converts time in 24h format to 12h format Example: “00:32” is “12:32 AM” “13:33” is “01:33 PM” “”” ampm = hhmmss.split (“:”) if (len(ampm) == 0) or (len(ampm) > 3): return hhmmss # is […]
Manso Trick: Getting the latitude/longitude from an address
For a project soon to be born (I hope), I’ve been doing a quick research for a way to obtain the latitude and longitude from a geographical address. For example, to determine the latitude/longitude from a totally random address like “Emerson Street, Palo Alto, California” BTW, Hi Mariano! Thanks for the stay in USA last […]
Unicode support in Python: Frustrations and Solutions
To be honest, I think the support of unicode in Python before Python 3, being totally honest, is a f*knig nightmare. I prefer PHP 5.x support for unicode (= zero support). One can get just crazy, sometimes things work, sometimes things crash somewhere unexpectly, or they don’t really crash, they just crash when you want […]
Serializing native data in Python
For a project I’m currently working on I needed to serialize some structures in Python. The only premise is that they were only made with basic/native Python types, such as lists, dicts, strings, integers, … The thinkgs I was considering were: compact representation fast serialization/deserialization human-readable / human-editable a must So after thinking for a […]
bbcodeutils: BBCode parser and BBCode to HTML for Python
Yesterday I was looking for a Python module able to parse Bulletin Board Code (bbcode for friends) or able to transform bbcode to HTML. After looking on the Internet I decided to create bbcodeutils a Python module to parse, generate and transform bbcode. I created in a way that I think is really simple to […]
[SOLVED] Add Unique Constraints to Google App Engine databases
The problem: Google App Engine rules! The truth is that I’m starting to feel confortable programming in Python, although I still like the curly braces to indentate. Anyway, the datastore used by Google is superpowerful and supersimple to use, but it has some limitations. With the App Engine SDK you can easily say which attributes […]
Manso Trick: simple strip HTML tags using Python
The idea is to make a simple function that strips all HTML tags on a given string. I know the following code might not seem the best code in the world, but keep in mind that I’m just looking for a simple function that does the job. def stripHTMLTags (html): """ Strip HTML tags from […]
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