This post explains how to pass a value from a Apex classic report to a database procedure. Following a discussion of the objective and a high level overview, the post concludes with a practical demonstration. The example used throughout the post was built using using Apex 19.1 and Oracle Database 19 […]
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When setting up a Raspberry Pi to be used as a DAKboard you may want to ensure that some tasks happen on a regular basis. The cron job scheduler can be used to achieve this and in this post I will show you how you can schedule turning the display […]
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This post shows you how to use Regular expressions in Python. Step 1 Import There is no native support within Python for Regular expressions so the first step is to import the re module Step 2 Compile The next step is to compile the Regular expression. The compile method accepts […]
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This post describes a problem you may encounter when using pytest and the module and unit tests resided in different directories. In this post I used Python 3.6.1 and VS Code 1.52.1 running on Windows 10. The module and the unit tests can be found on GitHub. The code and […]
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In this post I will demostrate how to use pytest fixtures to access the expected responses to several unit tests with the goal of reducing code duplication. I have used VS Code to build and run these tests. If you need help setting up VS Code to run pytest take […]
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