test please delete

[DS23]

6k tonight? hmm. i might and then again... i might not.

[BrowneIssue]

Going through thiis Python tutorial and just got to i/o. It skims file handling then mentions pickle. That sounds interesting.

[DS23]

I really must pay more attention.

i thought you were paying rather a lot of attention. thought? you are paying a lot of attention. but on tpd milestones at the expense of your own. what a guy!

[NickFitz]

Excellent... all the database stuff sorted, and pluggable renderers...

[DS23]

Slowly we approach the magical 16k.... post by post by post by post...

that is the best way to do it.

is it really magical?

[DS23]

not a tree?

[DS23]

i'm sure willow is a tree.

it is also a film i think.

[DS23]

and probably a drugged up hippy dance

[NickFitz]

I wish I knew what on earth you were talking about... wot's a pluggable renderer?

Is it to do with mad cows?

It allows the same data to be output in different forms: I initially need HTML, but Facebook expects FBML, and at a later stage I might want JSON, or XML... CSV even

The same model and controller code is used whatever the required return type, then the appropriate renderer is selected and returns the data in the correct form.

It helps encapsulate important security stuff (preventing XSS attacks and such) in one place at output time... meaning we don't have to be concerned about putting unusual characters into the database, as long as we prevent SQL injection, of course

For example, HTML needs < converted to &lt; - otherwise it would be possible for a malicious person to insert JavaScript into the output that could do naughty things.

[DS23]

i expect that if it is a film it is also a book