serve me up

Serving out static files shouldn't require creating a VirtualHost in Apache or a nginx config file (this project may not be render this claim inaccurate though). Here's how to do it in one line.

Ruby

$ ruby -run -e httpd . -p8000

In true dsl fashion, this requires the ...

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potential dangers of building python extensions in mingw

Recently, I ran into some difficultly getting lxml to compile and work. It was crashing mysteriously on the seemingly-innocuous fread(). After many days of debugging, I stumbled upon the cause:

Each copy of the CRT library has a separate and distinct state. As such, CRT objects such as file handles ...

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pkg_resources.require syntax/format

In case you're wondering, the syntax/format is similar to what you would use for specifying dependencies in a setup.py.

Here's a fairly complex example of loading a recent django 1.1, but not 1.2:

>>> from pkg_resources import require
>>> require("django >=1.1, <1.2")
[django ...

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