On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:13 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > 1+ for distance_of_time_in_words function. I have rolled out my own > long time back based on stackoverflow implementation.
I made a ticket for Andrey's post and will consider it. http://bitbucket.org/bbangert/webhelpers/issue/17/alternate-distance_of_time_in_words The current implementation is taken from the old rails helper without much change. pretty_date is more of a time_ago_in_words than a distance_of_time_in_words, BTW. > I have written utilities to convert to_ascii and to_utf8 like > functions but still they are error prone :-(. When we crawl and > collect information on job posting, we have some non-ascii chars which > are not converting to ascii. But I don't know it make sense with > webhelpers. webhelpers.text is using unidecode if installed, and it seems to be pretty slick. It converts non-ASCII characters to visual equivalents. I thought about including unidecode in WebHelpers but the lookup tables are too big. > feedparser (www.feedparser.org/ ) does so much of useful > tricks. > > However I don't use to_ascii, to_utf_8 with pylons. We are using > Celery, a python based job scheduler (uses multi-processing and > concurrency, message q). It has been written with Django orm. I am > working on porting to sqlalchemy. > > Some more things (not sure whether they are really web helpers) > > 1. submission feed to twitter > 2. submission to friendfeed. These two would not really be webhelpers because they're tied to specific services. You can put a recipe in the Pylons Cookbook. > 3. Auto complete for form field Hmm, WebHelpers has stopped being involved in Javascript, but this would be generally useful so a small implementation might be OK. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
