Python 3.0 seems to come with fancy new features to urllib including urllib.parse which is an excellent utility for parsing the different components of URLs. I however don’t use python 3.0 yet and needed a clean way to make full URLs given a base URL and relative URLs. This is helpful if you’re scraping a [...]
Archive for the ‘django’ Category
2 Jan
Installing CSSTidy and Scons on OS X or Linux
I’m setting up django-compress, and incredibly helpful django tool for compressing media files. By default it requires the installation of CSSTidy which was not as smooth of a task as most. Here are my notes. Installing Scons To install CSSTidy you have to have Scons in order to install it. Scons is similar to Make [...]
28 Dec
Django-admin.py startproject > Unknown Command
This is hardly worth a post but I’d found nothing on google for the fix and so I’m documenting it here for others. In Django v 1.0 django-admin.py has smartly been altered to behave the same as ./manage.py. It seems that this has effected the startproject command in the event that your DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable [...]
14 Aug
Zope3/Plone to Django
I was going to write a brief summary/closer on our summer but ended up writing this lengthy article about our startup’s decision to switch to Django from Zope3/Plone as it is the major reason we’ve missed our previously projected release dates. Its difficult for me to post this as it may appear to cast some [...]
