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Wednesday, 9th June 2004

Backporting from Python 2.3 to Python 2.2

We have a home-grown templating system at work, which I intend to dedicate an entry to some time in the future. We originally wrote it in Python 2.2, but upgraded to Python 2.3 a while ago and have since been evolving our code in that environment. Today I found a need to load the most recent version of our templating system on to a small, long neglected application that had been running the original version ever since it had enough features to be usable.

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# 6 am

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# 6:01 am

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# 8:02 am

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# 8:48 am

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# 9:10 am

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# 3:40 pm

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# 3:43 pm

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# 3:48 pm

Small Values of Cool: 5250 fans aren’t Luddutes. Serious data entry clerks and mice just don’t mix.

# 3:55 pm

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Release Notes. I just installed 0.9 RC 1 on my Mac. It’s prettier than 0.8.

# 8:08 pm

WHAT’s Next. More WHAT punnage, with thoughts from Dave Shea.

# 8:30 pm

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