Jason Orendorff's path module

2008-08-12 Thread andybak
Hi, I know this has been consigned to oblivion by the BDFL but I'm rather addicted to it's use. I notice the original site is no longer there. Has anyone got a cached copy of the page that I can host for posterity? Which rather makes me wonder - lot's of people liked this module or rather dislike

Re: setup.py when you can't write to site-packages?

2006-08-09 Thread andybak
The solution was therefore right in plain view: http://docs.python.org/inst/alt-install-windows.html (despite the misleading url this page applies to Unix) (Must. Check. Docs. Before. Posting.) Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > andybak wrote: > > > There are several gaps in my Python knowledge

setup.py when you can't write to site-packages?

2006-08-09 Thread andybak
There are several gaps in my Python knowledge, one of which is the what exactly setuptools does and how it works. I'm on a shared host so can't write to site-packages therefore most setup.py's fail. My strategy for pure python packages is to run setup.py locally and copy anything that gets put in

Re: Overriding methods in classes you don't control

2005-03-28 Thread andybak
I've also come across several situations where modifying existing classes seems the simplest and most intuitive thing to do. Obviously it is fine for quick hacks but people tend to go 'whoo' and wave their fingers around when people suggest it as a general technique. Has anyone got any exper

Re: Integration with java

2005-01-14 Thread andybak
How about this? http://jpype.sourceforge.net/ (I haven't used it myself) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ann: CherryPy-2.0-beta released

2005-01-03 Thread andybak
I'm a great believer that avoiding query strings in URL's is good practise ( http://www.holloway.co.nz/book/9 for good arguments why). How tricky is it to remap URL's to query strings in cherryPy? Also how much does it complicate matters to run cherryPy under an existing webserver? Is any function