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How to Create a Date Time Snippet in Sublime Text 2 (Dynamic Signature with Time Stamp)
You'll have to create a new plugin. From the menu bar select Tools > New Plugin Copy the Python script from the signature.py file. Remember to replace your email address (it's example.com). Save the file, signature.py, is fine. Next open up Prefer...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Rails Style Params in Python and Flask
Ruby on Rails does a great job of parsing arrays in form data and populating a params hash, for quick and easy access in your controllers. For instance Gives you params[:item] # => ["item 1", "item 2"] Flask doesn't do this work f...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/04/2018
How to Just Get SQL Statement Error with SQLAlchemy Python Database Wrapper
If you're working with SQLAlchemy, the best database driver for Python, and want to see only SQL syntax errors, you need to use the StatementError exception class. On it, is an attribute `orig`, that contains just the SQL syntax error... and not any data...
Written by Sean Behan on 05/10/2018
paypal ipn simulator
If you use the Paypal sandbox you'll notice that there is an IPN Simulator test tool. You must be logged to use it. This tool lets you test an IPN handler script for your application. If your script is not correct and you try to send a test IPN transactio...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Installing MatPlotLib on OS X for Python Version 2.6.1 with PIP and VirtualEnv
If you thought you had installed matplotlib only to find this File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib-0.91.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/matplotlib/numerix/__init__.py", line 166, in __import__('ma', g, l) File "/Library/Python/2.6/...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012