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Python and Linux kernel 3.0: sys.platform != 'linux2' 12 Sep 2011 | 10:55 pm
It's getting more and more challenging to compile Python. Half a year ago Python 2.x's build system broke caused by multiarch support in Ubuntu Natty. Now Linux kernel 3.0 is going to reveal yet anoth...
smc.freeimage 0.0.2 23 May 2011 | 11:24 am
A while ago I noticed that Christoph Gohlke has unofficial Windows builds of my smc.freeimage wrapper on his hosting site. It made me aware that some people actually use my image processing software. ...
How to compile Python on Ubuntu 11.04 20 May 2011 | 11:02 pm
At work we deploy and compile our own Python environment on all server in order to have full control over versions, patches and libraries. Three days ago I stumbled upon a problem in our build process...
Microsoft gives MSDN Premium subscription to PSF members 20 Aug 2009 | 11:10 am
This almost went through unnoticed. Steve Holden (Python Software Foundation) has worked out a fantastic deal with Sam Ramji and Tom Hanrahan (both leading Open Source guys at Microsoft). Microsoft ha...
How to add a new module search path 13 Aug 2009 | 10:59 am
Once in a while Python users are asking how to add some directories to sys.path permanently. Usually a solution like the PYTHONPATH env variable are suggested to the op. Other solutions require root p...
libxml2 crash on 64bit Ubuntu 12 Aug 2009 | 10:02 pm
I've spent the last couple of hours debugging a really strange segfault. Our application stack had a reproduceable crash in libxml2 -- but only with self compiled versions of libxml2. Ubuntu's 2.6.32 ...
multiprocessing 2.6.2.1 released 31 Jul 2009 | 01:52 am
A new version of the multiprocessing backport to Python 2.4 and 2.5 has been released. It contains all fixes from the Python 2.6 branch. As usually the release is available as tar.gz and Windows insta...
Python 3.0 is dead, long lives Python 3.0 3 Jul 2009 | 01:18 pm
Now it's official. The developer teams has decided against a Python 3.0.2 bugfix release [1]. Python 3.0 will not see another release and everybody should move to Python 3.1 as soon as possible. The 3...
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and Python 17 Apr 2009 | 06:11 am
Last week I've started with testing Ubuntu 9.04. The update process ran smoothly as usual but I had to switch from fglrx to radeonhd because the proprietary ATI driver seems to lack support for the gr...
work, booksnakes and a side dish of cherries 8 Apr 2009 | 08:07 am
For more than a year I'm employed by a company called S mantics Kommunikationsmanagement GmbH as a Python developer. The company offers multiple services related to communcation and its management in ...
