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If you’re using Pylons, the Python framework, you’re probably using FormEncode. And if you’re using FormEncode, you’ve probably have noticed, and blithely ignored, the state argument that’s the last argument to a number of the validator class methods.

So what is state and why would you want to use it?

I was tasked at work last week with coming up with a 2 million+ record dataset for some load tests we’re running on our application. I had a day’s worth of production data that I need to extrapolate to six months. Another opportunity to use my favorite python module: random What I wanted was something [...]