Articles by Category: Python

I created an internal wiki for our team, and I needed to password-protect the whole thing. I didn't want users to have to authenticate themselves to Apache, then get to the wiki pages and have to log in again, so I went looking for an automated solution. I found info on doing it with MySQL, but not with PostgreSQL.

I'm always forgetting how to tell Subversion that it should ignore .pyc files, so I figured I'd write it down.

While attempting to add lists together today, I ran into something unexpected - I was using append() when I should have been using extend(). I've also added a quick gotcha for sorting lists and returning only unique elements.

If you use the Django database API from a Python script, you will probably need to set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE and PYTHONPATH environment variables. Read on to find out how.