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  1. wxPython on OSX Mavericks with or without Homebrew

    wxPython on OSX Mavericks with or without Homebrew

    Just a short note for anyone else who runs into this nonsense: I could not get the current version of wxPython to install in a useful way using homebrew. brew install wxmac --python --devel to install into my Homebrew-controlled Python install worked …

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  2. Django Profiling Bug

    Django Profiling Bug

    I’m doing some work profiling a large Django application and I was running into this weird error when I tried to aggregate the stats with gather_profile_stats.py which comes with Django. It kept throwing TypeError: zip argument #1 must support iteration if there were two profile …

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  3. MySQL and Python on OSX

    MySQL and Python on OSX

    Because I rarely use MySQL nowadays and because how often do you set up a new machine, this is a reminder to myself on how to get mysql-python installed in a virtualenv

    1. Add /usr/local/mysql/bin to your path (permanently in your .profile)
    2. If …
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