Simon Willison's Weblog: dateutilhttp://simonwillison.net/2020-09-28T00:33:04+00:00Simon Willisondatasette-dateutil2020-09-28T00:33:04+00:002020-09-28T00:33:04+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2020/Sep/28/datasette-dateutil/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette-dateutil">datasette-dateutil</a></strong></p>
New Datasette plugin exposing date/time parsing custom SQL functions powered by the classic dateutil Python library.
<p><small></small>Via <a href="https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1310376301249744896">@simonw</a></small></p>
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dateutil">dateutil</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/plugins">plugins</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/projects">projects</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datasette">datasette</a></p>
Speeding up dateutil: Python's heapq module turns minutes into seconds2007-12-22T13:07:43+00:002007-12-22T13:07:43+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/22/heapq/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://blog.brianbeck.com/post/22129050">Speeding up dateutil: Python's heapq module turns minutes into seconds</a></strong></p>
Neat case study in data structure optimisation.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/brian-beck">brian-beck</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-structures">data-structures</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dateutil">dateutil</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/heapq">heapq</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>