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Once again I was working on some Python code for EVE Online. This particular bit of code gathers a list of kills for a particular region and then summarizes that data in a daily report. Everything had been working properly, until one day...
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The other night I was working on some Python code that interacts with the zKillboard API. The API call returns kill information via JSON for EVE Online. While making the request, I was getting an error that I was using "non-acceptable encoding." It turns out that the zKillboard guys require …
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Occasionally, you may run across a date in a format that can't be easily loaded into a Python date object. For example, I recently had a situation where a file I was parsing was full of dates in this format: 7/7/2008.
The obvious thing to do here is …
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I'm not sure if the title of this post accurately describes the problem. I have a situation where I have very similar models that I want to display in one table. As you know, querysets are limited to a single model, so it isn't possible to have a single context …
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I recently created a page that had different tabs using the jQueryUI Tabs widget. For whatever reason, I would occasionally want to show a specific tab on page load rather than the default initial tab. One way to do this is to set a variable in your view context and …
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Django Debug Toolbar (DjDT)
is a must-have tool for most Django developers (at least the ones I know!). One
of the most useful features of DjDT is the SQL Debug Panel that displays information
about SQL queries including execute time and EXPLAIN output.
As of version 0.8.3, Django …
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Recently I was working on some old code. One of my model methods was originally written such that if one parameter was set to the Python None type, a particular set of actions would occur. For some reason, I checked for None like this:
if parameter is None:
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The Django team announced the release of Django 1.2.3 early this morning. All users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
This release fixes several problems including:
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As I mentioned the other day, I'm building a RADIUS client in Python for sending disconnect messages to Cisco routers.
One hang-up with the pyrad package is that it requires a dictionary file in order to map RADIUS attribute names to codes and types. In the case of my client …
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I've been working on a RADIUS client in Python that can send a disconnect message (packet of disconnect) to a Cisco router. I'm using pyrad 1.2 for the project.
I ran into this problem pretty quickly:
POD: 192.168.9.9 request queued
POD: Illegal authenticator in POD from …Reading Now
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