Re: When Python *Eggs* better than Python *distutils*?? What's Eggs?

2005-12-21 Thread dangoor
setuptools discussion has been ongoing on distutils-sig for months. Though the vast majority of the work has been done by Phillip Eby, there has been input from quite a few people along the way. I haven't seen any other related effort that comes anywhere close to setuptools. What do you envision a

XML with Unicode: what am I doing wrong?

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin Dangoor
This is a followup to a blog post I wrote the other day http://www.blueskyonmars.com/archives/2005/01/31/using_unicode_with_elementtidy.html I started out working in the context of elementtidy, but now I am running into trouble in general Python-XML areas, so I thought I'd toss the question out h

Re: XML with Unicode: what am I doing wrong?

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin Dangoor
In article news.t-online.com>, "Diez B. Roggisch" web.de> wrote: you confuse unicode with utf8. Expat can parse the latter - the former is internal to python. And passing it to something that needs a string will result in a conversion - which fails because of the ascii encoding. Ahh... that make

Re: Is there something easier than ORM?

2009-02-26 Thread Kevin Dangoor (Mozilla)
On Feb 17, 10:28 pm, alex23 wrote: > On Feb 18, 3:10 am, Robert Kern wrote: > > > Its public image definitely suffers from the impression that it's "an ORM" > > that > > can be compared on equal terms with packages that actually are just ORMs. I > > describe it as a very powerful toolkit for sol