For what it's worth, I'm a huge fan of virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
and of Doug Hellmann's virtualenvwrapper: http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper/ What virtualenv does, basically, is create an isolated Python environment into which you can install stuff without affecting any other Python software on your system. And virtualenvwrapper provides tools for easily creating, removing and working with virtualenvs. So my workflow these days goes something like this: mkvirtualenv somepythonproject (this creates a new virtualenv, named "somepythonproject", and drops me into it; if I come back later in another shell, "workon somepythonproject" will put me back in the virtualenv) >From there I have easy_install for installing Python packages I want to try out, or I can use the "add2virtualenv" function in virtualenvwrapper to add a directory to the virtualenv's Python path. For example: add2virtualenv ~/dev/my-django-apps/ Within the virtualenv, everything I've installed or added to it is available, but it doesn't affect anything else on my system; I can blow it away with no repercussions if I mess something up, or keep adding/tweaking stuff as needed. It's even getting easier to do real deployment with this, too; mod_wsgi supports a directive that lets you point it at a virtualenv to run a site out of a completely-sandboxed environment, so you can simply use normal tools within the virtualenv to set things up and not worry about clashing with anything else. If you haven't looked into this, I highly recommend it. And maybe in the 2nd edition of the book I'll try to explain this a bit more clearly... -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
