Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
Using Django, and easy_thumbnails coupled with Pillow specifically I’m stumbled upon this error in PIL.ImageFile on PIL/_binary.py: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found This python error was so frequent I’ve done some research, coming up with nothing. I’ve checked current Pillow version with: Getting: Pillow==3.0.0 Then I’ve upgraded the Pillow package …
I’ve started using Drupal on 2007. For about 9 years I visits drupal.org almost on daily basis, I released a module, I suggested some patches, participated to local events and so on. I’ve started working on Drupal with Drupal 5 and I ended on Drupal 7 with a long time on Drupal 6. In the …
Last months I looked for a tool to shape my community on Twitter to follow interesting profiles and to increase my followers. I had bad experiences using integration from third party (app) so I wanted this tool to be able to create my own app on Twitter without 3rd party involvment for better security and …
In the past it was difficult to get MySQL working on virtualenv without using system packages. Now you can have a real separated environment with simple steps: Follow this guide to install virtualenv using this command: This command will install a new virtualenv inside a new directory myproject created by the command itself. Activate virtualenv: …
If you have a virtualenv on Windows and you want to add MySQLdb support via mysql-python, read this before spending hours of your life to figure why it doesn’t and it will never work. 1) Install MySQL for Python selecting the same Python version of the virtualenv 2) From site-packages directory above, copy the selected …
Memory Error when using pip install on Python can emerge both from command line or from a IDE like PyCharm, usually when the package size is big. When you try to install a python package with pip install packagename but it fails due to a Memory Error, you can fix it in this way: Go …
How to speed up the time to the first byte and what are the causes of a long TTFB? Main causes are network and server-side and I will focus on server-side causes. I’m not covering any CMS here but you can try to apply some of these techniques starting from how to interpret the browser …
How to choose the right IDE for Windows and how to find and install Python libraries? Six fundamental resources to program with Python on Windows.
In a recent article I explain the motivations for an upgrade from a no longer maintained Drupal 6 installation to Django 1.8. I will now cover more in detail the migration techniques adopted in the upgrade and I’ll deepen the models and the relationships. Structure If you’re a drupaler, you’re familiar with the node/NID/edit and the node/add/TYPE …
Some months ago I talked about how to achieve a unified login from Django to Drupal using drush. The basic assumption was that both Drupal and Django are on the same server. What if the two components are on different servers? Paramiko is a SSH2 protocol library aimed to provide simple classes to make SSH …
