User-defined transforms and Python - what valuable usages have you found?

Hi everyone,
I just started looking into the User-Defined Transforms / Python-editor in Business Objects Data Services Designer.
I'm fairly new to this, but it sounds like the purpose of this editor is to write Python scripts to do things that the standard Transforms cannot do. I'm curious to hear about what valuable usages you've found for this Python-editor. Any feedback would be much welcome and appreciated!
Thanks,
Sunny

The additional button on the GUI Status needs to start with a Z.
Then it's available and its possible ot put some coding behind it using the available user_exits.

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/EN/9f/db9ede35c111d1829f0000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
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declare @refdt datetime
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select
t1.Account as 'GL Code',
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WHERE
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T1.[Account] = @GlCod
(There is no need to declare the memoria table @test2 if you already created one table with this name.
And there is no need to a join.)
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