String/Decimal issues

2007-11-10 Thread Mike Howarth
Hi Seem to be having a bit of brainfreeze this evening. Basically I'm reducing an array of prices like so: >> subtotal = reduce(operator.add, itemprices) This gives me a string of '86.00.00' which I am trying to use with decimal objects. Python 2.4 is not particularly happy with this. Addition

Database objects? Persistence? Sql Server woes

2007-07-30 Thread Mike Howarth
I've been having a few problems with connecting to SQL Server, initially I was using dblib however found some problems with returning text fields whereby all text fields were ignored and it bawked at multiline sql statements. Having found these major stumbling blocks I've started using pymssql wh

Re: Factory pattern again

2007-07-27 Thread Mike Howarth
duct_code) item_set.getItems() self.products.extend(item_set.getItems()) except: print 'problem occured:' + type + ':' + product_code else: pass Bruno Desthuilliers-5 wrote: > > Mike Howarth a écrit

Re: Factory pattern again

2007-07-27 Thread Mike Howarth
Thanks that makes absolute sense. I was sure it was something simple, thanks for your time. Bruno Desthuilliers-5 wrote: > > Mike Howarth a écrit : >> Hi >> >> I was wondering whether anyone could help me, I'm pretty new to python >> coming from a

Factory pattern again

2007-07-27 Thread Mike Howarth
Hi I was wondering whether anyone could help me, I'm pretty new to python coming from a PHP background and I'm having a few products in getting my head round how to write the factory pattern within python. I'm currently looking to try to return values from a db and load up the relevant objects,