Category: Python

Compiling FreeTDS on Windows

This is how I got FreeTDS to compile on Windows 7 Professional with Visual Studio 2008. 1. Install Visual Studio 2008 (a.k.a.: Visual Studio 9.0) 2. Download the FreeTDS 0.91 source tarball and extract it somewhere. I chose...

ProgrammingPython

Python context manager for redirected stdout and stderr

I was working on the setup.py for pymssql and was annoyed by the distutils.ccompiler.CCompiler.has_function function -- because it checks whether a C function exists by creating a very simple C program and invoking the compiler...

MacProgrammingPython

Compiling a universal library

A note for my future self on how to compile a library as universal binary in Mac OS X. For a while, I've been getting warnings like these when building pymssql: ld: warning: ignoring file /usr/local/lib/libsybdb.dylib, file was...

ProgrammingPython

Back to setuptools

Browsing PyPI yesterday, I was surprised to see a new version of setuptools. I almost thought it was a bug. For years, I've been drinking the distribute Kool-Aid and automatically using distribute instead of setuptools. Well, I...

ProgrammingPython

Continuation of mod_wsgi setup

My previous setup worked until I wanted to add another Django instance and then it didn't work, because I had two WSGIScriptAlias entries under different URLs but it would launch whichever app it wanted to regardless of the URL....

ProgrammingPython

djangotestxmlrpc

I had been working on DjangoPyPI and trying to fix some tests related to XML-RPC that were failing in versions of Python < 2.7, because the testing was relying on specifics of the implementation of xmlrpclib in Python 2.7. I...

ProgrammingPython

Some tips for setting up Apache and mod_wsgi

I recently set up an internal PyPI server at work for hosting some of our internal Python packages. I used djangopypi and that was pretty easy to set up and get it working in the Django runserver. Most of the difficulty came in...