Tuesday, Dec 15th, 2015
I enjoy using the interactive Python console as a calculator, but typing python3 and then from math import * was annoying. So I scripted it into a simple command I've named cpy. Maybe someone else can use it.
Tuesday, Nov 24th, 2015
The Jinja templating engine works well to create LaTeX templates for generating PDF files. The only issue is the default Jinja block, variable, and comment identification strings can conflict with the LaTeX commands. A solution is to change the Jinja environment to mimic the LaTeX environment.
Here is an example. This is the python file test.py:
Tuesday, Jun 17th, 2014
If you are using subprocess.Popen to run an external process while running Python/Django with a virtual environment in Apache via mod_wsgi you'll discover the new processes run outside of your virtual environment. In my case, I need to set the PYTHONPATH environment variable to get everything straight. Rather than hardcode it or the sys.path in the external script, I'd like to set it to the same value as the existing environment.
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