More THEORIES, NO RESULTS.
I guess all developers here are big boys that earn over N400,000 a month (which is an obvious lie). Cos if this is a weeks work and 4 weeks are in a month, do the maths.
Shut up and do the job or keep your theories for the pulpit.

I think Nigerians have a "if i no chop, nobody must chop" attitude to work and play.

I'm Proudly Nigerian, btw.

If no one is working on this contest, then I'd like to cancel it, because I'm yet to get any entries.

Saw it late (Friday night). Working on it. Maybe I'll win all the money since I'm the only one.
It's an interesting project.
pymysql had some issues with the Decimal field in MySQL 5.5 and I had to change some code in there. Will send a git repo link tomorrow (I hope).

jajad:

Saw it late (Friday night). Working on it. Maybe I'll win all the money since I'm the only one.
It's an interesting project.
pymysql had some issues with the Decimal field in MySQL 5.5 and I had to change some code in there. Will send a git repo link tomorrow (I hope).

Are you in Nigeria, or Nigerian?

That person is likely a pirated I.D or something. The writing style is a tad too familiar for a newbie.

Na wa o, so upon all the mouth you guys don make, nobody fit chest out like King Kong, code the shi.t?

*dhtml:

That person is likely a pirated I.D or something. The writing style is a tad too familiar for a newbie.

Na wa o, so upon all the mouth you guys don make, nobody fit chest out like King Kong, code the shi.t?

Pirated I.D? And when you say newbie do you mean to nairaland or to Python web programming?
Abeg Seun leave the contest open o. I could use the money. Monday and Tuesday are public holidays. I'm surprised more people aren't attempting it though. It would be nice to have someone to share ideas with.

Hi Seun, I have a special request to make.
I am a final year student of Electronics and computer engineering at the Federal Univeristy of Technology, Owerri. Currently i do only .NET programming that's why I am not able to apply for your python contest.

My request is this, i applied for a young innovator competition organised by an international body CRDF for Asia, middle east and Africa. The name of the competition is Global Innovation Through Science and Technology (GISTech). Contestants are to create a 2minute video presentation of how they can solve a world problem using Sci and Tech.

My idea is geared towards reducing infant mortality in developing countries. The App i propose(i-Solutions), detects pathologies in newly born babies from the cry sound they produce using neural networks.

Next thing is that all competition entries (videos) are to be voted for by public on you tube and only those with the highest votes qualify to the next round.

Please Seun, I am asking that you watch my pitch video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRE0bgAvP_o and if you find it worthy (which i believe you will), please put it on the nairaland home page so that my fellow Nigerians can vote for me to increase my chances of making my country proud.

Please I really need this opportunity to make my idea a reality. I have followed nairaland posts for about a year now and you seem to me like a person who is concerned about helping the Nigerian Youth (and i am not saying this to flatter you).

Please just give me this one chance and watch my video.

Hope to hear from you soon.

@ Tryxo
Very well done man! Sweet!
I like to say thank you for putting Nigeria on the Global stage in this way. You make me proud!
For you to be in the front page of this forum, you will need to start a thread. I have taken the liberty to create one for you here:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-798089.0.html#msg9497100

People like me will see it and will surly vote for you! I went to youtube to vote and saw that an Egyptian had already voted for you! If someone outside our shores recognizes the value of you work why not us? I see no reason why you should not make the front page!

GoodLuck Brother and once again Thank You!

Oh sweet-pawn, i cannot thank u enough for this kind gesture. I am sorry i had no idea of the process of getting a thread on the frontpage.
I really appreciate this. I have seen the thread, its just perfect!
God Bless You.

Don't mention. Anything for a brother -in-code!

just doing this to learn python,

The SQL script and an initial python file can be found at:

https://github.com/jazzyF/auction

@wassolldas: Interesting. Good luck!
@jajad: Good luck!

Still a long way to go . But here goes.
https://github.com/jnhdny/testauction

Tryxo:

Hi Seun, I have a special request to make.
I am a final year student of Electronics and computer engineering at the Federal Univeristy of Technology, Owerri. Currently i do only .NET programming that's why I am not able to apply for your python contest.

My request is this, i applied for a young innovator competition organised by an international body CRDF for Asia, middle east and Africa. The name of the competition is Global Innovation Through Science and Technology (GISTech). Contestants are to create a 2minute video presentation of how they can solve a world problem using Sci and Tech.

My idea is geared towards reducing infant mortality in developing countries. The App i propose(i-Solutions), detects pathologies in newly born babies from the cry sound they produce using neural networks.

Next thing is that all competition entries (videos) are to be voted for by public on you tube and only those with the highest votes qualify to the next round.

Please Seun, I am asking that you watch my pitch video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRE0bgAvP_o and if you find it worthy (which i believe you will), please put it on the nairaland home page so that my fellow Nigerians can vote for me to increase my chances of making my country proud.

Please I really need this opportunity to make my idea a reality. I have followed nairaland posts for about a year now and you seem to me like a person who is concerned about helping the Nigerian Youth (and i am not saying this to flatter you).

Please just give me this one chance and watch my video.

Hope to hear from you soon.

i have to say its an interesting video. Goodluck on your competition

Seun:

If no one is working on this contest, then I'd like to cancel it, because I'm yet to get any entries.

If you raise the pot of money and/or relax the conditions (ORM, language), then I'm sure you'll get more entries.

Part of the problem is that you are picking a relatively obscure tool chain and also not offering very much money.

So greatly limiting who will be interested.

^^^^That is very very true

im just seeing the job. though i don't really hv a lot of time i will start working on it

@jajad: this:

#Consolidate user detail queries
def userDetails(email):
    results = runQuery("select id, availablenaira,nairabalance,dollarbalance from x_user where email =%s;", (email,))
    rr = {}
    rr["id"] = results[0][0]
    rr["availablenaira"] = results[0][1]
    rr["nairabalance"] = results[0][2]
    rr["dollarbalance"] = results[0][3]
    return rr

Is equivalent to:

#Consolidate user detail queries
def userDetails(email):
    return runQuery("select id, availablenaira,nairabalance,dollarbalance from x_user where email =%s;", (email,))[0]

Seun:

@jajad: this:

#Consolidate user detail queries
def userDetails(email):
    results = runQuery("select id, availablenaira,nairabalance,dollarbalance from x_user where email =%s;", (email,))
    rr = {}
    rr["id"] = results[0][0]
    rr["availablenaira"] = results[0][1]
    rr["nairabalance"] = results[0][2]
    rr["dollarbalance"] = results[0][3]
    return rr

Is equivalent to:

#Consolidate user detail queries
def userDetails(email):
    return runQuery("select id, availablenaira,nairabalance,dollarbalance from x_user where email =%s;", (email,))[0]

Not really. Your function returns a list e.g. (1, Decimal('84505353.8900'), Decimal('84528775.0000'), Decimal('30454.2300')).
The first one returns a dictionary e.g. {'dollarbalance': Decimal('30454.2300'), 'id': 1, 'availablenaira': Decimal('84505353.8900'), 'nairabalance': Decimal('84528775.0000')}
I thought it was better to use userDetails()["dollarbalance"] than userDetails()[3].

u.dollarbalance would be cleanest though and hopefully that's where I'm headed

@jajad: Actually, with MySQLdb, the two are actually equivalent because row objects can be indexed like dictionaries, but this does not apply to pymysql. Oops.

What's up, guys?

Please take a look. Any thoughts?

Checking out your code. Trying to install mako.

You seem to be making a lot of progress.  Kudos!  How can one test this?

I will try to put it up someplace. Installing MySQL 5.5 on a Linux box might be sticky though.

Don't worry about that. I have it running on my laptop. How can I set up an auction?

Oops sorry! Forgot to put a link on the homepage. Please use /createauction. I'm looking for a nice datetime javascript picker. Please enter the date/time in this format YYYY-MM-DDTMM:SSZ e.g. 2011-11-10T20:25Z.
As you can see, it's still very much in progress.

Wow. This was fun!
@Seun. I've made several changes. Please checkout the code again. Thanks.

I've uploaded the code on the net. It can be tested here.
PLEASE remember it is only proof-of-concept. Very little error handling/validation is built in. You can break it!
Everyone, your suggestions on how I can improve it (so I can win Seun's money) are very welcome.

It bruises easily, so be gentle . . . 

Checking it out. Have you implemented the CBN governor account yet?

Haha. For now anyone can create an auction. What capabilities would you like his account to have, apart from creating an auction? Currently, there's a limitless supply of dollars for sale.