Category Archives: Python
Django – verbose console logging in development server
The moment you set DEBUG = False in development server for Django, you will be clueless about what’s going on for every error your application may encounter. If you just want to show verbose error messages on the console (when … Continue reading
Sending Email in Google AppEngine for Python
Google AppEngine provides an API services for sending emails. I’ve setup a contact form to use such feature. I used a couple of validations, security tokens via custom sessions and the mail service to implement this feature in my site. … Continue reading
Sessions on Google AppEngine for Python
In PHP world, creating sessions is so easy when using built ins. To customize, secure and make it fast, you have to create a whole new architecture to do that. In my experience with Google AppEngine, your only choice is … Continue reading
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Tagged appengine, cookie, google app engine, google appengine, memcache, session
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Validatish – a Python validation library
I was looking for a good validation library in Python and then I found validatish. As usual, it uses exceptions every time it encounters an error. I like its simplicity and ease of use. Below is how I used it … Continue reading
Trival – Passing list or dictionary as argument in Python
So you got a cool API with lots of magic? Then suddenly you wanted something like dynamically passing parameters when needed. A common pattern wherein you call an arbitrary method with arbitrary arguments. I know this is trival but if … Continue reading
Redirecting URLs in Google AppEngine for Python
A month ago, I decided to re-structure my URLs but have no plan on handling redirects for indexed URLs by search engines. I’ve been receiving several 404 errors on my logs and finally decided to do a 301 redirect to … Continue reading
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Tagged 301 redirect, appengine, google appengine, redirect, seo redirect
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Re-writing lysender.com – a Google AppEngine Python adventure
My portfolio site is definitely a very small site with almost no visitors at all. Written in Kohana and was previously hosted in Pagodabox, I’ve migrated it to Google AppEngine for Python 2.7. It was fun and frustrating at the … Continue reading
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Tagged app engine, appengine, google app engine, google appengine, jinja, pytz, timezone
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AppEngine – Python – Caches Object Values
[UPDATE]: Solved this problem, explanation at the bottom. So I have this semi-MVC AppEngine for Python setup where I setup different CSS/JS files per page. The problem is that AppEngine caches object values causing values to stack. Example, if I … Continue reading
Sum First column of a File – Python Script
I keep on summarizing error logs and one of the task is to sum up all occurrences of all errors/warnings/notices etc on the hourly error log sent via email. Instead of adding them one by one, I’ve created a small … Continue reading
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Tagged error log, error logs, first col, first column, python script, sum error, sum errors, sum first column
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Unit Testing with Python and Google App Engine
It came to the point where developing my soon to be web service become too difficult since I have to write test codes on my request handlers. I finally made my way to Python Unit testing using the unittest module. … Continue reading
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Tagged appengine, google appengine, python unit testing, python unittest, unit testing, unittest
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