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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

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’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