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Published: 2010-07-14

PyGraphviz on OS X (SL) with virtualenv

Mac OS Python X graphviz virtualenv

There's this cool project called django-extensions that (among other things) adds a lot of commands to django's manage.py offerings. One of which is ./manage.py graph_models [appname] which will generate a nice graph displaying the relationships among all of your Models. This comand needs pyGraphViz, though, and I was a little disappointed when i discovered I couldn't install pyGraphViz with pip install pygraphviz. (ok, a lot disappointed). I eventually got this working, and here's how ...


Published: 2010-02-25

Building PIL on OS X: Snow Leopard

Mac OS PIL Python X homebrew virtualenv

There are several places online that discuss problems installing PIL on Mac OS X Snow LeopardThis is how I got it to work.Install lib jpeg using homebrew (which is super-aweseome!) brew intall jpeg.This installs the library into /usr/local/Cellar/jpeg/7Install libfreetype the old-fashioned way (./configure, make, sudo make install). I used freetype-2.1.10.pre-20050511.Download, unpack PIL (I used Imaging-1.1.6). I had to make the following changes to setup.pyFREETYPE_ROOT = "/usr/local"JPEG_ROOT ...


Published: 2009-11-24

Gahhh!! Django, virtualenv, and cx_Oracle

apache cx_oracle django virtualenv

UPDATE: Thanks in advance to the comments from Graham Dumpleton whose comments below pointed me in the right direction!This wasis a plea for help.I've got django installed and configured with apache and virtualenv. I also have one particular app (named myapp) that queries an Oracle database directly (django is configured to use MySQL). All of the apps work, except for anything thatbrequires the myapp app... which includes the admin!Requesting any view that uses cx_Oracle results in ...