April 2008 Archives

Apr 14, 2008

djangogigs.com - Finding Django devs or gigs

Posted by Michael Anckaert in Links 'n stuff • No comments

The website djangogigs.com is an excellent place for a company to find Django developers or for developers to find work as a (freelance) Django developer.
Two small things are missing though. One is a search function, pretty basic functionality that should be there and the other is that all gigs or developers are listed by country [...]


Apr 9, 2008

Python: Calculating the number of weekdays between dates

Posted by Michael Anckaert in Uncategorized • No comments

This Python function will calculate the number of weekdays between two dates.
from datetime import date
from dateutil import rrule

def weekdays(start, end):
weekends = 5, 6
weekdays = [x for x in range(7) if x not in weekends]
days = rrule.rrule(rrule.DAILY, dtstart=start, until=end,
byweekday=weekdays)
return days.count()
Small but effective!