Re: Overriding builtin getattr method

2006-10-03 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hello Gabriel Genellina and Diez B. Roggisch, Thanks for sharing your opinions. I agree with Gabriel when he talks about the separation between the presentation and the DB level access and the drawbacks of introducing character manipulation. The problem that I am facing right now is that the p

Re: Overriding builtin getattr method

2006-10-03 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Correction: I meant __builtin__.getattr method and not the other one I mentioned. :-) Thanks Raja Raja Raman Sundararajan skrev: > Hello guys, > I have data stored in the database which has special characters > like <, > etc. > Case 1: Whenever I wanted to present the o

Overriding builtin getattr method

2006-10-03 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hello guys, I have data stored in the database which has special characters like <, > etc. Case 1: Whenever I wanted to present the output to a browser I need to escape these special characters into the browser equivalent like < > etc.( for example by using the cgi module) Case 2: Whenev

Re: MS word document generator

2006-03-23 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hi paron, I am using PyRTF as of now and it seems to fit my need quite well and it works like a charm :-). I have made a wrapper around it so that it will easier for me to switch the backend for generating the word/RTF docs later. May be, it will be openoffice :-) I appreciate your input. Thank

Re: MS word document generator

2006-03-15 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hi Michel, Well, Office 12 will have very many features. Thats true. But my document needs to work in all versions of Office. I hope that pyRtf generated file is fully rtf compatible. :-) But so far I think it is quite okay. To answer my first question: > 1. do an align right of contents inside

Re: pyRTF and cells

2006-03-15 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Yeah, thats a good approach. I have been fiddling around to implement that feature in elements.py and RTF specification from msdn However, I have not been successful thus far. To answer my first question: > 1. do an align right of contents inside a cell Its not possible by speficying alignment in

pyRTF and cells

2006-03-15 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hello, I have been playing around with pyRTF module for generating rtf documents. Its a very nice tool that fits my basic needs. However I have a problem controlling cells in a table. I am not able to 1. do an align right of contents inside a cell 2. set backgroundcolor of a cell 3. I wonder i

Re: MS word document generator

2006-03-15 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hi guys, Thanks for your note Grant. I had a look at the pyRTF and it seems to be quite impressive :-) I actually works for my needs except the below, concerning cells in a table For cells in a table, pyRTF does not support 1. ALIGN_RIGHT 2. Cell background Do you guys have any idea of how to

Re: MS word document generator

2006-03-15 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hi Tim, Thanks for your PyRTF suggestion. I am checking it out now :-) /R -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

MS word document generator

2006-03-15 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hello guys, Is there any nice library to generate word documents using Python. As of today I am generating a HTML document and then open it with MS Word. But the problem is that I am not able to control the pages in the document and as a result of it the output looks terrible. I have been usi

Test indexers...how do they work?

2006-02-09 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hello guys, I was investigating how one can use the "text indexers" in python and I stumbled across several ones. eg., pylucene I wanted to know how the algorithm of indexers look like. I have heard people talking about B-Trees. But this info. is simply know enough. I would like to know exactl

Re: Regular Expression Syntax Help

2006-02-08 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Oh! yes you can use re for that. You just need to change the pattern a bit I did not understand where the "title" will be so I have ignored it, but I got something below which will be helpful for you >>> value = """name:asasasasas\nrequest: play\ntitle""" >>> reg = re.compile('Name:.*\\nrequest:.

Re: Regular Expression Syntax Help

2006-02-07 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
try this. maybe this is what you want? reg = re.compile('Name:.*\\n', re.IGNORECASE) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MSSQL LIKE and IN statements in ADO problem

2006-01-19 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hi Gregarican, Thanks for sharing your code. One needs to add the % signs if one wants to do wildcard searches using LIKE in the SQL server. Do as Roger and Steve suggested '%raj%', now you can find the names containing the word raj anywhere in the column. just value = 'raj' is only going to fe

Re: MSSQL LIKE and IN statements in ADO problem

2006-01-19 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Ok guys! The problem seems to be much easier to be solved than first thought. -->Shoot<-- Using the correct CreateParameter statement seems to do the trick. For example creating the parameter as cmd.CreateParameter(name,const.adVarChar, const.adParamInput, Size=16, Value=value[i])

Re: tools to manipulate PDF document?

2006-01-19 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Yes, reportlad is a good tool for creating pdf and images -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MSSQL LIKE and IN statements in ADO problem

2006-01-19 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
This does not seem to work well Roger >>> value = '%raj%' >>> cmd.CommandText = "select * from table_name where firstname LIKE ?" result is 0 where I expected 4 /Raja Raman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MSSQL LIKE and IN statements in ADO problem

2006-01-19 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hello Steve, Roger and Pete, Nice to read your reply. Well, I can do an assert check for integers and then filter out hazardous SQL injection characters for varchars and do a direct substitution of the filtered values with the SQL statement. But by using ADO, input strings can be treated as wh

Re: MSSQL LIKE and IN statements in ADO problem

2006-01-18 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Hi Gregarican, I am the original poster and yes this is a production code level problem. Do u have inputs for a solution? /Raja Raman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MSSQL LIKE and IN statements in ADO problem

2006-01-18 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Yes, the statement you tried is a valid statement also >>> name = "%'WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:03'--%" >>> "SELECT * FROM tb_name WHERE firstname LIKE '%s'" % name is also valid. My question is how to use the LIKE statements using ADO.in python :-| -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

Re: MSSQL LIKE and IN statements in ADO problem

2006-01-18 Thread Raja Raman Sundararajan
Yes, Steve you have a very good point. Gregarcian, I am using the parameterized SQL to avoid such vulunerability. for example in your example use name = "%'WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:03'--%" and directly substitute it to the statement "select * from table_name where name like '%s' " % (name) The server w