Monthly Archives: November 2006

Django :: i18n

Posted on November 24, 2006 by admin

What’s up with so many languages? E.g. in Switzerland there are four official languages, and in Norway there are two: bokmål and nynorsk (details). I’ll be describing what I had to do to get a good user experience with these … Continue reading →

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Python :: flatten

Posted on November 10, 2006 by admin

Although it can seem like a CS excercise, everyone will sooner or later have to write a “flatten” function — a function that takes a nested “list” and makes it one-dimensional: it should also handle Python data types in a … Continue reading →

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Django :: making a date dropdown field

Posted on November 8, 2006 by admin

It seems like it is hard to input valid dates in a free-form text format for a significant portion of users. Personally, I don’t like many of the popup calendar widgets since they usually rely on Javascript for rendering — … Continue reading →

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Python :: defprop – a very simple idiom for defining properties

Posted on November 5, 2006 by admin

Most attempts at making it easier to define properties in Python seem to quickly descend into metaclass obscurity. Metaclasses can surely solve the problem for an appropriate definition of solve, but “Explicit is better than implicit”, and “Simple is better … Continue reading →

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