python-2.6

So I know this is not a new topic, but its one that nobody has seemed to be able to solve, at least not for Python 2.6 / Snow Leopard. (The Leopard fixes I've found aren't applicable to Snow Leopard.) Situation: I'm trying to get Django installed locally on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard laptop. (10.6.7) I have Python 2.6.1, which is what came preinstalled with Snow Leopard, MySQL-python 1.2.3, and MAMP 1.9.6. All are latest current versions. Without making any changes to the MySQLdb package, if I run python setup.py build I get hundreds or more errors, the first of which are: $ python setup.py

I have a medium-amount of base objects. These base objects will be put in collections, and these collections will be munged around: sorted, truncated, etc. Unfortunately, the n is large enough that memory consumption is slightly worrisome, and speed is getting concerning. My understanding is that tuples are slightly more memory-efficient, since they are deduplicated. Anyway, I would like to know what the cpu/memory tradeoffs of lists vs. tuples are in Python 2.6/2.7. If you have a tuple and a list with the same elements, the tuple takes less space. Since tuples are immutable, you can't sort

In Python, how can I have one setup (which may contain expensive function calls) for a whole set of unit tests? Example: import unittest class Test1(unittest.TestCase): def setUp(self): print "expensive call" def test1(self): self.assertEqual(1, 1) def test2(self): self.assertEqual(1, 1) if __name__ == "__main__": unittest.main() Will run the expensive call twice: $ python unittest.py expensive call .expensive call . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 2 tests in 0.000s OK How can I change it so the expensive call is made only once and its resources

I have two RHEL servers running Python 2.4 and 2.6 separately. There is an Oracle database on the other server I need to access. I was trying to install cx_oracle on my RHEL server but found out that the Oracle client must be installed first. The problem is, I don’t have permission to install Oracle's client on both RHEL servers. On the same servers, a Perl program can connect to the Oracle db using: DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:host=myhost.prod.com;sid=prddb",'username','password') Can Python do the same without installing cx_oracle and the Oracle client? Or are there any suggestions about how to

I am getting a path separator error in python 2.6.1. I have not found this issue with python 2.7.2 version, but unfortunately I need this in 2.6.1 only. Is there any another way to achieve the same? :( my code :- import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET #version 1.2.6 import sys class usersDetail(object): def __init__(self, users=None): self.doc = ET.parse("test.xml") self.root = self.doc.getroot() def final_xml(self,username): r = self.root.find("user[@username='user1']") #not working in 2.6.1 :( self.root.remove(r) print r tree = ET.ElementTree(self.root) tree.write("msl.xml") if __name__ == '_