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Python development setup on Mountain Lion - part 3

Eclipse setup to use python in a virtualenv

Today I will cover how to setup eclipse to use the python virtual environment we created in part 2 of this series.

When you first launch eclipse, create a new workspace and call it something relevant. I called it python273 and created …

Python development setup on Mountain Lion - part 2

Setup virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper on Mountain Lion

In the previous part I went through how you can have multiple versions of python and how you can easily switch between these versions. Here I will go through setting up virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper. This will help in keeping all the different versions …

Tip on burning dual layer disc on your MacBook Pro

You can solve this problem by disabling the sudden motion sensor on your laptop. When the disk is going from layer 1 to layer 2, the sudden motion sensor activates which then disrupts the burn process. So if you want to burn a dual layer disc, disable the sensor.. But …

Python development setup on Mountain Lion - part 1

Install and manage multiple versions of Python on Mountain Lion

When I was doing python development on snow leopard, I was installing python modules up the wazoo on the default python which came with the laptop. I later realized that was not the right way of doing it. To keep …

My Code Editors on Mountain Lion

I started playing with sublimetext2 sometime before I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I liked it a lot. Specially for python programming.

In order to be able to invoke it from the terminal, I created a sym link to my bin directory. Just make sure your bin folder is in your …