Principal Engineer, type system nerd, Rust enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband & father, avid comic & manga reader, 日本語を勉強してる。
Just got bit by the pip bug that this commit fixes, which affects pip users with the newest versions of git. If you're having trouble installing a git requirement in pip because of a git rev-parse error, just update to the dev version of pip. pip install -U pip==dev. Use git show-ref instead of git…
Brandon Konkle
I just got bitten by an interesting bug related to Python's pass-by-reference feature. I had a class method (mymethod) with a keyword argument (mykwarg) that defaulted to {}. I thought that each time mymethod was called, if mykwarg wasn't passed then it would default to an empty dict. In reality, w…
Brandon Konkle
I do my Django development work locally on OS X, so I have several different daemons installed on my machine. I used to keep Postgres, MySQL, lighttpd, memcached, and more set up to autostart and run continuously, but I didn't like the burden on performance (real or imagined). Also, I switch between…
Brandon Konkle
At Pegasus News, we run custom deploy scripts that use pip to read through a requirements.txt file and keep our virtualenvs up to date. We use quite a few 3rd-party Django apps that we pull from PyPi, along with several apps - both internal and 3rd-party - from Github and Bitbucket. I'm a huge fan o…
Brandon Konkle