Ok, here's my issue. I recently switched to a new(er) development box - from an aging G4 PowerMac running OS X 10.2 to a 17 in. flat panel iMac running OS X 10.3. Even though the old machine was running...

From Guido Van Rossum's PyCon 2004 keynote (wish I could've made it): Q: Python packaging painful - any solutions to not letting user screw you up with multiple versions? A: Bittorrent works well. Not aware of other efforts in that...

From Guido Van Rossum's PyCon 2004 keynote (wish I could've made it): Q: Python packaging painful - any solutions to not letting user screw you up with multiple versions? A: Bittorrent works well. Not aware of other efforts in that...

It's things like this that make Python rock (despite it's other shortcomings). Run this command: python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()" on any machine with Python installed, from the directory you want to serve files from and presto - instant webserver! Oh...

It's things like this that make Python rock (despite it's other shortcomings). Run this command: python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()" on any machine with Python installed, from the directory you want to serve files from and presto - instant webserver! Oh...

I love Python the language. I love the Python community - it's one of the most helpful, civil bunch of techies I've ever come across. But what I don't love are the options available if you want to develop web...

I love Python the language. I love the Python community - it's one of the most helpful, civil bunch of techies I've ever come across. But what I don't love are the options available if you want to develop web...

It's funny - how if you read the documentation carefully, things make a lot more sense. I think I've tried almost every GUI framework for Python that I could find - wax, wxGlade, wxPython, PyObjC, etc. wxPython was first; but...

It's funny - how if you read the documentation carefully, things make a lot more sense. I think I've tried almost every GUI framework for Python that I could find - wax, wxGlade, wxPython, PyObjC, etc. wxPython was first; but...

Been experimenting with GUI options for Python. And none have been terribly satisfying. Started out with wxPython. Way more complicated than it should be. And not very intuitive to write or debug. Moved on to higher levels of abstraction -...

Been experimenting with GUI options for Python. And none have been terribly satisfying. Started out with wxPython. Way more complicated than it should be. And not very intuitive to write or debug. Moved on to higher levels of abstraction -...

So I'm trying to enable MySQL access from within Plone/Zope and it requires MySQLdb. I can configure, build, install the MySQLdb module fine. Problem is that the Plone install comes with its own distribution of Python (which is dumb) and...

So I'm trying to enable MySQL access from within Plone/Zope and it requires MySQLdb. I can configure, build, install the MySQLdb module fine. Problem is that the Plone install comes with its own distribution of Python (which is dumb) and...