Andrew Channels Dexter PinionWherein I write some stuff that you may like to read. Or not, its up to you really.OSDC 2008 Call For Papers- May 23, 2008 In case you haven&8217;t seen this elsewhere; Call for Papers Open Source Developers&8217; Conference 2008 2nd - 5th December 2008, Sydney, Australia The Open Source Developers&8217; Conference 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, ...http://halfcooked.com/blog/2008/05/23/osdc-2008-call-for-papers/ Opening a file in Python- May 9, 2008 I&8217;m sure I read this somewhere recently, but my scratchy memory and command of Google can&8217;t bring it back to me. Is there a Python idiom for accepting either a file name or a file object as a function parameter The closest I can get is this; def my_function(file_name_or_object): try: ...http://halfcooked.com/blog/2008/05/09/opening-a-file-in-python/ Trouble Getting a Date- May 8, 2008 I&8217;m having trouble with dates. This can be summed up in a couple of high level issues; 1. Date support in relational databases is insane, or at the best inconsistent. As far as I can tell the ANSI SQL-92 standard defines date, time, interval and timestamp data types. Which doesn&8217;t help when SQL Server only implements something ...http://halfcooked.com/blog/2008/05/09/trouble-getting-a-date/ |