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After being stuck with the drudgery of string interpolation when outputting HTML from python I figured there had to be some better way to do it, yes? The combination of a single decorator and a couple of functions proved to be the solution, here’s the code:
Wordpress decided to f*ck up my syntax highlighting in this […]

Edit: You learn something new every day, it turns I was the disillusioned one, the correct way to call super is actually this:

class Demo(object):
def __init__(self):
print “From Demo”

class Test(Demo):
[…]

Part 1: Introduction to generators in Python
Part 2: Indepth generator usage in Python (part2)
Part 3: Managing asynchronous operations with python generators (part3)

You can download all the code for this part here: http://totmacher.eu/upload/generators.tar.gz
I’m sorry, I lied to you guys - this part will not contain a real world example because I felt there were to many […]

Part 1: Introduction to generators in Python
Part 2: Indepth generator usage in Python (part2)
Part 3: Managing asynchronous operations with python generators (part3)

After my last post on generators in Python I realized I missed go through one thing that I wanted to mention in the first part, namely how the return keyword interfaces with yield and […]

Part 1: Introduction to generators in Python
Part 2: Indepth generator usage in Python (part2)
Part 3: Managing asynchronous operations with python generators (part3)

First, some history…
Generators is a concept that was introduced in Python at version 2.2, back then they were unidirectional that only allowed information to be passed out of the generator and not back into […]

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Edit: After a couple of comments and some personal pondering I decided to remove a small part of the article, if you read it before and think something is missing, then you know why.
Once again a post aimed at the PHP community, not so much of a rant but more of something I’ve seen done […]

I love programming, it’s that part of my life that let me express all these crazy ideas I get. Most of my work is done in PHP, and has been for a long time - there’s a simple explanation for that; Where I live (Sweden) PHP has had an incredible boost the last few years, […]

pySX is my latest hobby project. It’s a very simple XML library that aims to simplify the process of handling XML as much as possible. The code can be found here: http://svn.loveandtheft.org/fredrik/pysx. Here are a couple of quick usage examples:
“Manual”
When accessing an element, two things can happen:

You get a list back, which means that there […]

If you’re still using the mysql_* functions in php instead of PDO or some other more advanced db library (propel, doctrine) there’s one big favour you can do yourself, stop using mysql_query() and use this function instead:

<?php
function mysql_squery ($sql) {
$args = array_slice(func_get_args(), 1);
$args = array_map(’mysql_sescape’, $args);
return mysql_query(sprintf($sql, $args));
}

function mysql_sescape ($value) {
if (is_string($value)) {
$value = mysql_real_escape_string($value);
}
return […]