Re: [python-uk] easy_install pip won't work, am concerned Ministry of Packaging may chase after me.

2010-03-30 Thread Mike MacCana
Thanks. I understand what you're saying, but personally I'd like to have Ubuntu own site-packages, and have everything required for each project installed via VirtualEnv: - A large part of a lot of OSs (particularly Linux and OS X) uses python, and therefore site-packages, and there's been a few c

Re: [python-uk] easy_install pip won't work, am concerned Ministry of Packaging may chase after me.

2010-03-30 Thread Ed Stafford
Mike, Glad it worked for you. Although the Ubuntu team does a fine job of package management I'm still a bit hesitant to use their python packages. It's easy enough using vanilla python to get everything you need going. In the future you can do the following just as easily. `wget http://peak.tele

Re: [python-uk] easy_install pip won't work, am concerned Ministry of Packaging may chase after me.

2010-03-30 Thread Mike MacCana
Walter, you are a god amongst men. It turns out this is a bug in Ubuntu 10.4's virtualenv package. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-virtualenv/+bug/517390 But your advice has successfully worked around it. For anyone else wanting a quick method to get pip + virtualenv running

Re: [python-uk] easy_install pip won't work, am concerned Ministry of Packaging may chase after me.

2010-03-30 Thread Ed Stafford
Hi Mike, You should really use easy_install to install pip under your main python site-packages along with virtualenv/virtualenvwrapper and then use PIP after you mkvirtualenv. PIP is aware of virtual environments so you shouldn't have any trouble in this regard. Basically, install PIP in your gl

[python-uk] easy_install pip won't work, am concerned Ministry of Packaging may chase after me.

2010-03-30 Thread Mike MacCana
Hey UK Pythonistas, In accordance with the new directives issed at http://s3.pixane.com/python_comrades.png, I've installed virtualenv and virtualenv_wrapper, made, and activated a project like so: # mkvirtualenv imeveryone # workon imeveryone However using the easy_install inside the virtualenv

[python-uk] Reminder: next CamPUG meeting Tue 13th April 2010

2010-03-30 Thread Tony Ibbs
Just a reminder that because the first Tuesday of April is immediately after Easter Monday, the next meeting of the Cambridge and East Anglia Python User Group will be: * Tuesday 13th April, CodeDojo meeting, 7.30pm, at RealVNC Subsequent meetings will be back to normal: * 7.30pm Tuesday 4th