"Frank Millman" writes:
> ...
> It is a simple matter to write a program that updates the database
> automatically. The question is, what should trigger such an update? My first
> thought is to use a version number - store a version number in the working
> directory, and have a matching number
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Yes, "words" are skipped if they contain anything other than lower
> case alphabetic characters. Really simple words = text.split(), then
> discard words not meeting the criteria.
Easy way to catch a few more: Just .strip() off a few commo
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Thus endeth my attempts to train Skip's Polly. But I am curious -- if
> 'suckitude' is in immediate contact with punctuation such as just now, or at
> the end of a sentence, does it not count? That would be suckitude indeed! ;)
Thank you
On 08/29/2014 04:47 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
On Aug 29, 2014 5:34 PM, "Chris Angelico" wrote:
I'm not sure how suckitude is affected by bugs, exactly; possibly O(N
log N), because each bug has a small probability of affecting another
bug.
OTOH, bug fixes often have a fairly high probability
On Aug 29, 2014 5:34 PM, "Chris Angelico" wrote:
> I'm not sure how suckitude is affected by bugs, exactly; possibly O(N
> log N), because each bug has a small probability of affecting another
> bug.
OTOH, bug fixes often have a fairly high probability of adding more bugs to
the system, especial
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> > Speaking of suckitude, we could classify technologies that way:
>> >
>> > xml: major suckitude
>> >
>> > rpc: no suckitude
>> >
>> > python: ne
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> > Speaking of suckitude, we could classify technologies that way:
> >
> > xml: major suckitude
> >
> > rpc: no suckitude
> >
> > python: negative suckitude
>
> I disagree with your last two qualificatio
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Speaking of suckitude, we could classify technologies that way:
>
> xml: major suckitude
>
> rpc: no suckitude
>
> python: negative suckitude
I disagree with your last two qualifications. RPC still sucks, just
not as much as some things do. A
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>> Yeah, schema migration is an ugly problem.
>
> It's not really any worse than any other sort of complex data
> structure change, is it? If your persistent data lived in a pickle
> file, i
Roy Smith writes:
> Yeah, schema migration is an ugly problem. There's a number of tools
> to help here, most of which reduce the suckitude, but don't eliminate
> it completely. Some things you might want to look at:
>
> * SQLAlchemy Migrate
> * alembic
I can strongly recommend SQLAlchemy. It ha
On 08/29/2014 10:04 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Yeah, schema migration is an ugly problem.
It's not really any worse than any other sort of complex data
structure change, is it? If your persistent data lived in a pickle
file, it would likely be
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> Yeah, schema migration is an ugly problem.
It's not really any worse than any other sort of complex data
structure change, is it? If your persistent data lived in a pickle
file, it would likely be as bad or worse.
> ... suckitude ...
Nice word
- Original Message -
> From: "Roy Smith"
>
> Yeah, schema migration is an ugly problem. There's a number of tools
> to
> help here, most of which reduce the suckitude, but don't eliminate it
> completely. Some things you might want to look at:
>
> * SQLAlchemy Migrate
> * South (djan
In article ,
"Frank Millman" wrote:
> The project is inherently database-driven. The python code expects to find
> certain tables and columns in the database. As I develop new features, I
> sometimes need to modify the database structure. In the bad old days (like
> yesterday) I would just ma
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Frank Millman wrote:
> Once downloaded, the 'py' files are automatically 'live', because that is
> how python works. But the xml file will just be sitting in a directory.
> *Something* has to trigger running a program that reads the xml file and
> inserts it into
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> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Frank Millman
> wrote:
>> Right now I am writing a tool to allow users to view and modify menu
>> definitions. The tool is effectively a form definit
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Frank Millman wrote:
> Right now I am writing a tool to allow users to view and modify menu
> definitions. The tool is effectively a form definition, which in my system
> is expressed in xml and stored in the database in the 'sys_form_defns'
> table. The raw xml w
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> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Frank Millman
> wrote:
>> It is a simple matter to write a program that updates the database
>> automatically. The question is, what should trigger s
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> On Friday, August 29, 2014 6:12:06 PM UTC+5:30, Frank Millman wrote:
>> Hi all
>
>> Now that I have bitten the bullet and published my repository, I am
>> forced
>> to change my working practices (whi
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Frank Millman wrote:
> It is a simple matter to write a program that updates the database
> automatically. The question is, what should trigger such an update? My first
> thought is to use a version number - store a version number in the working
> directory, and h
On Friday, August 29, 2014 6:12:06 PM UTC+5:30, Frank Millman wrote:
> Hi all
> Now that I have bitten the bullet and published my repository, I am forced
> to change my working practices (which is a good thing!).
> The project is inherently database-driven. The python code expects to find
> ce
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