Timothy
Fletcher

After installing Python’s Pygments module on my slice I ran into the following error when trying to run a django app.

IOError: zipimport: can not open file /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg

If you’re a developer learning Python/Django then you’re almost certain to run into some of the same issues that I did. In particular, when deploying to a production server, the admin throws a 500 error and when trying to troubleshoot, your changes have no effect.

I just ran into an interesting issue whilst implementing Akismet spam protection on my contact form. Although the akismet.py module was on my import path, the module wouldn’t import in a python shell.

I’ve been using Textmate for well over a year and it took me a significant portion of that time to work out (because I couldn’t find any documentation) that you can actually edit a filename using the keyboard. Just select it and hit <space> This might be construed ...

Although python-twitter was working fine on my local development machine, I couldn’t get it working on my Slicehost Ubuntu VPS. The error Django/Python would throw was:

‘module’ object has no attribute ‘Api’ twitter

I’ve been keen to breathe some life into my blog for a while. As with all things, there just never seemed an opportunity until that is, I was introduced to the rapid web application development framework, Django. So, to coincide with my taking on a full time position at Lift Interactive here in deep freeze Edmonton, I’ve rebuilt everything using what is certainly one of the finest frameworks out there.