This post is really more of a note to myself as I’m sure I’ll be doing this again. But hopefully someone else will stumble upon this and find it useful :).

I have a VPS hosted on Rackspace running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server edition. I wanted to change the hostname as I originally named it the name of the application I was working on, but I’m now planning on using it for multiple things. I …

The logging.config module was updated in Python 2.7 and included a function called dictConfig() which takes a dictionary as an argument used to configure the logging module.

I wanted to use this in my new project so I can keep all my configurations/settings in one Python file but we’re not ready to upgrade to Python 2.7 just yet. The good news is you can just get the dictconfig module on its own and add it …

I was just doing some Java coding and I needed to check the values of a bunch of fields of an object (mostly numbers). Normally I’d just call and print each get() method if I just need to check a few fields, but the class I’m dealing with has over 30 fields and I need to check them all and there’s no way I’m doing over 30 print statements for each get() method!

A quick …

I just found out about this today while working on a Django app. I have some data stored in a database as a string but the structure is a dictionary and I wanted to retrieve it as a dictionary object.

Instead of parsing this data to retrieve the keys and values myself, it turned out Python has a module called ast (Abstract Syntax Trees) that can take care of this, specifically the literal_eval()function:

>>> …

A couple of months ago I was working on a project where I needed to retrieve data in JSON format from a web service written in Python (using the Django web framework) under GWT. The data is then loaded into GXT/Ext GWT grids and charts.

After looking at a GXT example of loading JSON data to a grid, I thought this would be pretty straightforward, but of course I was wrong. Since the Django …