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NOTinuyasha: Oct 17, 2006; The Great Twist

finally, a thread for me

# ¿ May 8, 2013 19:40

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 19:40

NOTinuyasha: Oct 17, 2006; The Great Twist

dur posted:

i'm a bad programmer. this is how i'm making an xml file in python

Python code:

fcline = '\t<FeatureClass name=\"%s\" oid_field=\"ObjectID\">\n'
fline = '\t\t<Feature oid=\"%s\" action=\"added\" />\n'

outFile.write(fcline % 'MISC_PLAN_METRICS')
for row in arcpy.SearchCursor('MISC_PLAN_METRICS_Work'):
	outFile.write(fline % row.ObjectID)
outFile.write('\t</FeatureClass>\n')
	
outFile.write(fcline % 'Park_Boundaries')
for row in arcpy.SearchCursor('Park_Boundaries_Work'):
	outFile.write(fline % row.ObjectID)
outFile.write('\t</FeatureClass>\n')

outFile.write(fcline % 'Hydrology')
for row in arcpy.SearchCursor('Hydrology_Work'):
	outFile.write(fline % row.ObjectID)
outFile.write('\t</FeatureClass>\n')

it works though

what you actually are is a really really bad programmer, im a regular bad programmer and it only took me like five minutes to figure out lxml

# ¿ May 28, 2013 22:06

NOTinuyasha: Oct 17, 2006; The Great Twist

i had to generate something with a custom namespace once and i just used a template engine because it would have required actually reading the documentation to do it in lxml, but that one case was acceptable because i checked on github and found a real programmer who did it too.

# ¿ May 28, 2013 22:26

NOTinuyasha: Oct 17, 2006; The Great Twist

Papes posted:

So I'm a terrible programmer whose only done academia stuff so I have little knowledge about how "real" programs work.

I'm trying to put together a very simple shipment notification app for the iPhone. I've dug through the APIs of the major parcel carriers and I believe I just need to make a XML parser class (I'd use a library one obviously) and then receive and send messages to their respective websites through the XML parser?

Is this basically the gist of what I should do, or is there a way thats 10x easier that I don't know about.

would you say the time & money you spent learning "academia stuff" was worth it at all

# ¿ Jun 17, 2013 10:29

NOTinuyasha: Oct 17, 2006; The Great Twist

polpotpi posted:

theres no good tutorials or books for objective c

big nerd ranch makes a good objective-c book

# ¿ Jun 22, 2013 16:14

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 19:40

NOTinuyasha: Oct 17, 2006; The Great Twist

Mido posted:

use singletons everywhere

everywhere

Do this

# ¿ Sep 3, 2013 16:04

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