Update new Django and Python 2.7.* with virtualenv on Dreamhost (with passenger)

Question

Dreamhost is a great host for small project. And it\'s also Django friendly hosting. Everything good except python and Django version is a little bit out of date. Well it\'s

Answer 1

Currently Dreamhost updated servers to Ubuntu 12.04, and i've got an error:

Import Error: /_io.so undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_Decode

after compiling custom python and running "python ez_setup.py"

The solution was to compile python with --enable-unicode=ucs4 at step 1

./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME/Python27 --enable-unicode=ucs4