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I sent the following to Python Magazine via the “Contact Us” page at php|architect.

I hope Python Magazine returns to life. I will continue to subscribe.

However, having said that…

Your customer service sucks. The only news I have about PyMag is what I find surfing the Net. I haven’t received a single solitary email\communication from you about the magazine’s status. Last I heard from you was the delivery of October 2009’s issue. Over 6 months ago. Since you have my subscription funds, (I am not asking for a refund, BTW) your behavior is bordering on illegal.

What I do ask for is that for any current subscriber (myself included) be provided a link to download EVERY issue of Python Magazine’s back catalog in PDF form at no cost. You should do this in an email sent to each and every (current) subscriber with an apology for your behavior to date, along with an explanation of the magazine’s status currently.

Please comment here if you agree or disagree with my comments for a public discussion of this matter.

Please also let Python Magazine know how you feel by sending them feedback as well.

Update 22-APR-10:

I received a reply email from them and it isn’t pretty. It seems Python Magazine is all but dead. That’s unfortunate.

Hello,

Thank you for writing to us. Python magazine has been suspended indefinitely. We will therefore fully refund the remainder of your subscription. Can you please respond with your PayPal email address and we will credit that account. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you. Please let us know if you have any further questions or concerns.

Thank you,
Cathleen

I received a “Come Back. We Miss You.” discount coupon from a major technical book publisher. They said that I could get 40% off my total purchase. Great, I thought. They wanted to incent  me to buy some books (IOW spend some money with them) that I wouldn’t otherwise have done without the discount coupon. This would have worked, but didn’t. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ll write more:

• but I’m off to bed.
• but I’m too busy right now.
• but I don’t know of what to write about.
• after I finish this project.

The excuses keep coming. But it is a new year and Skribit has launched, so maybe I will make a belated New Year’s Resolution and start writing more. You can help me out by using the Skribit widget down and to the right.

I’ll write more later because I’m off to bed now.

I am running WinWGet Portable as part of my PortableApps setup and I discovered a bug in WinWGet (version 0.20 beta April 2004).
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At home I have a desktop computer that I use mostly for gaming. I have a laptop that I use for my home office work and development. I often use a Windows Remote Desktop Connection to use my laptop (that is sitting in my office) while I am in the living room where my desktop is. Today I needed to create some ISO images from CDs and burn some ISOs to disc. I didn’t want to run back and forth between my living room and my office.

Then I remembered that I had Alcohol 52% on my desktop and Alcohol 120% on my laptops.

I used Alcohol 52% to share the DVD-RW on my desktop using Alcohol iSCSI Server and my laptop is running Vista, so I used Vista’s built-in iSCSI client and mounted the drive.

Now I could use the DVD-RW drive that was physically on my desktop with Alcohol 120% running on my laptop over a Remote Desktop Connection.

Download http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py and execute it.

wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
chmod 777 ez_setup.py
python ez_setup.py

I can never seem to remember the steps despite it being so simple. I just don’t do it enough to remember.

mkdir .ssh
chmod 700 .ssh
cd .ssh
vi authorized_keys
// paste public key
chmod 600 authorized_keys

I am running on Windows and using JP Software’s Take Command version 10. I also like to use IPython.

When I invoke IPython from a TCC shell I have problems with aliases that shell out to TCC from IPython. For example, a simple ls command.

I discovered that the DOS/TCC environmental variable COMSPEC is set to a value that includes a space (C:\Program Files\JPSoft\TCMD10\TCC.EXE). If I set it to the 8.3 value (C:\PROGRA~1\JPSoft\TCMD10\tcc.exe) before invoking IPython, all is well.
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I’m on Windows and I have created a virtualenv sandbox. I activate the sandbox and now I want to start up an IPython shell using the sandboxed environment. The following will do just that.

python -c "import IPython.Shell; IPython.Shell.IPShell().mainloop(sys_exit=1)"

thx to ThomasWaldmann on #python
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Today I wanted to install the Python Cryptography Toolkit into a sandbox I had created using virtualenv. The issue was that the PCT was available as a Windows binary at The Voidspace Python Modules but I didn’t know how to install it to a sandbox because the EXE installer looks to the registry for the location of the system installation of Python.

After a little searching and experimenting I realized that all you need to do is to change the location the registry is point to from the system installation of Python to the sandboxed version.

So in my case I backed up the current registry key.

REGEDIT4
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\InstallPath]
@="C:\\Python26\\"

And then created a copy of the file and modified it to point to the sandboxed Python install.

REGEDIT4
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\InstallPath]
@="D:\\workspace\\mysandbox\\"

At this point you simply run the EXE installer and it will be installed to the sandbox. After it is installed, restore the original registry key.

update:

I am running 64-bit Windows 7 on one of my computers and see that the corresponding registry entry is at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Python\PythonCore\2.6\InstallPath