Category: Python

print_settings: A super simple and useful custom Django management command

A large number of problems that we have with our Django project at work turn out to be because of settings that are not what they should be (note that our settings are not straightforward to see with a glance at settings.py since...

ProgrammingPython

Patch for `gitpoller` accepted into Buildbot

I use Buildbot for a (Django) project at work. When we switched from svn to git, I had problems getting Buildbot to pull down the code from our private GitHub repo. Rather, I was getting this error: Failure:...

Python

Contributed to South

A very, very minor pull request was accepted into South.

Python

Added Selenium 2 support for collective.recipe.seleniumrc

I wanted to use the collective.recipe.seleniumrc buildout recipe to deploy Selenium RC, but quickly discovered that it didn't work with recent Selenium 2 versions, because the recipe assumes that downloads are .zip files with...

ProgrammingPython

Python txLoadBalancer

The idea of a Python-based load balancer, txLoadBalancer, piqued my interest. It took a bit of futzing around to actually get it running, because the distribution doesn't specify its dependencies or include a sample config file....

Python

Python tool of the day: yolk

I just stumbled upon yolk. It does a bunch of things related to package management, but the simplest and arguably most useful is to just list installed packages. marcabramowitz@Marc-Abramowitzs-MacBook-Pro:~$ yolk -l Django - 1.3...

ProgrammingPython

Fun with zc.buildout

I've been exploring zc.buildout (another link) lately. In the past, I've typically gone the simpler route of using virtualenv and pip, but I knew that buildout could do some powerful things and I've long wanted to kick the tires....