Tag: Python

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...

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...

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Plone and Zope time

Doing my yearly ritual of looking at Plone & Zope and making sure I still don't grok them. Check. In this year's installment, I set up a little Plone site and actually got as far as creating a custom content type. I started down...

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...

GtDMacProductivityPython

PyOmniFocus

A while back, I mentioned here and here that OmniFocus maintains some kind of cache of your data in a SQLite database. I just hacked together a quick little prototype Python module for reading OmniFocus data:...