Am trying to catch up with Python where I left off years ago.
<rant> What have they done to the language when I was gone? It is no longer the simple language as before. The decorator syntax looks so .. well, Perlish. List comprehensions, in some ways very inappropriately named, took a few moments to [...]
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Catching up with Python
October 20th, 2008 · Comments · General
No RegEx in M$ World?
August 21st, 2004 · Comments · General
The other day I got an XLS file exported from a client’s Microsoft SQL Server. I had to import the data into MySQL, and I thought using CSV would be the right way. But there was a problem – the XLS cells had newlines in them, and exporting to CSV use to mess up, and [...]
