Geeta from packt informed me that Packt is having this contest for opensource blogs. To quote the site with the contest running on it's fifth installment:
"Now in its fifth year, the Award, formerly known as the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award, is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward not only CMSes but a wider range of Open Source projects."
Nominations start on August 9 and ends on September 17, so get your nominations in! You can read the full announcement here.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
easy_install how I wish ...
I use a lot of easy_install during the day to manage my packages. First off the bat let me just get this off my chest, I hesitated like about 10 times before writing this article, for fear of getting panned all the way to Sunday, but then Sunday isn't really that far away so here goes. Also, before that if you are going to pan me or burn my ass for not reading docs at least at the end of it disseminate some useful info at the end of the burning comment so that everybody can benefit from it. God knows I would appreciate it.
I was doing some stuff on Pylons and for some reason Routes-1.12 was screwing stuff up, so I had to downgrade Routes by doing something like:
easy_install 'Routes<1.12' and it did it's work well enough.
Two thoughts itched at my thoughts though ... the whole experience of downgrading Routes felt a little bit too deja-vuish to be comfortable. Did I not do this before the other day? I could have sworn it was working the other day with Routes-1.11. All of this mental itching started a seed of mistrust for my hithero good simple friend easy_install.
Anyways, I just proceeded but now with an eye on my friend in the corner just to check up on what the macha was doing. I tried to find out the version of route that was running from easy_install, hmmm there was no way of doing that! At this point I just hear those magnums and AK-47s from all of you Python elites ready to blow me to kingdom come, as they always say "easy_install is meant for easy installing!" Okay okay, but is it so very hard to write it so that we can do something like:
'easy_install query Routes' ??
Remember pan me at this point if you want if you know that easy_install can do it somehow with some black magicks but at least let everybody know how. In the end I settled for this:
'python -c 'import routes;print routes.__path__'
Sigh ... I know my ass is just going to be hurting after this ....
I was doing some stuff on Pylons and for some reason Routes-1.12 was screwing stuff up, so I had to downgrade Routes by doing something like:
easy_install 'Routes<1.12' and it did it's work well enough.
Two thoughts itched at my thoughts though ... the whole experience of downgrading Routes felt a little bit too deja-vuish to be comfortable. Did I not do this before the other day? I could have sworn it was working the other day with Routes-1.11. All of this mental itching started a seed of mistrust for my hithero good simple friend easy_install.
Anyways, I just proceeded but now with an eye on my friend in the corner just to check up on what the macha was doing. I tried to find out the version of route that was running from easy_install, hmmm there was no way of doing that! At this point I just hear those magnums and AK-47s from all of you Python elites ready to blow me to kingdom come, as they always say "easy_install is meant for easy installing!" Okay okay, but is it so very hard to write it so that we can do something like:
'easy_install query Routes' ??
Remember pan me at this point if you want if you know that easy_install can do it somehow with some black magicks but at least let everybody know how. In the end I settled for this:
'python -c 'import routes;print routes.__path__'
Sigh ... I know my ass is just going to be hurting after this ....
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
New Book from Packt
Guys from packt have been hitting the web quite frequently and have sent me another book to review, this time Object Oriented programming in Python. Always wanted to read about this.
Anyway you can find a peek here:
Chapter No.7: Python Object Oriented Shortcuts
Enjoy!
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