As I'm in the process of working out what to write for my first weeknote I thought I'd start another weekly posting schedule - hence Ugly Code Of The Week.

I thought it would be quite useful, or at least interesting historically, to occassionally post a line of code that I am particularly ashamed of and in the process of cleaning up. I'm hoping that I can use this as a record of what I want to avoid. It won't always be Python, and I should point out that not all of my code is like this - I just tend to write code before going back to clean it up once it works - a habit I am trying to reduce by getting it right first time.

results = [ add_fields(show_fields,x) for x in model_cls.objects.filter( Q(**{qf:q}) ).order_by(field).all() ]

Yes, I know. Sorry, I won't do it again. Part of the problem with this is that the naming is not very clear, and another problem is that there is far too much going on in one line for a reasonable amount of readability. On the other hand, list comprehensions rock.

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Just thought I’d share something I got pointed to from twitter (via usejquery ).

wkrte is a rich text editor written in Javascript and using jQuery, which has a pretty nice feature where the button bar doesn’t appear until you focus the text area – nice way to save screen space I think.

There is a demo of wrkret which is probably worth looking at if you are in the market for a new rich text editor in the browser – I have a feeling that rich text editing in the browser is something that I’m never really going to be happy with, but at least this is a step in the right direction.

This is just a repost of Terry Jones' Introduction to FluidDB Talk (in MP3 format).

You can get it here