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Comment on Installing Python, MatPlotLib & iPython on Snow Leopard by Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:24:54 +0000

Hi Elina,

I don’t remember having to do any tweaking to get Python 2.7 working from the command line but it was a while ago when I setup it up.

Modifying the .bashrc should do the trick though, although I just checked and I don’t even seem to have a .bashrc either.

Comment on Installing Python, MatPlotLib & iPython on Snow Leopard by Elaina

Elaina — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:25:08 +0000

Hi all, I got a successful install in /Applications/Python 2.7/ but my version in cl is still Python 2.6.1 which, on my mac lives in /Library/Python/2.6 … how did you solve the problem of multiple versions? Did you declare a path in .bashrc? If I python from cl I don’t get access to anything installed as it’s all in /Applications. Also likewise ‘sudo python setup.py install’ for ipython doesn’t work for me… it just tries to put it in with Python 2.6.1. I do have easy_install but it is also only linked to Python 2.6 in /Library/Python/ and has absolutely refused to install matplotlib or numpy so I’d like to just force it to use the one you recommend above. Any suggestions or path declarations you guys recommend?

Comment on Getting started with Python by Jon

Jon — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:13:50 +0000

I recommend Python Koans highly – https://github.com/gregmalcolm/python_koans/wiki

You learn all the features of the language by fixing unit tests.

Comment on Barbara by sean

sean — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:01:32 +0000

Words seem to fail to adequately express how I feel but please allow me to say how sorry I am for your loss and pray that in the intervening time you have been comforted.

Comment on Basic graphing with MatPlotLib by Andres

Andres — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:50:36 +0000

Hi,
thank you for your example. Before it I tried several others but none of them worked for me, but yours works OK
regards
Andres

Comment on Organising photographs with Python by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:30:52 +0000

Good point, I tend to do that as I usually end up refactoring into functions for reuse.

Comment on Organising photographs with Python by Tim McNamara (@timClicks)

Tim McNamara (@timClicks) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:10:02 +0000

Just a note, if you’re only using this script from the command line then there’s no need for the if __name__ == "__main__" block.

Naturally, you could refactor your code into functions. However, at the moment, it’s just useless computation and whitespace.

Comment on Organising photographs with Python by Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:31:29 +0000

Matěj Cepl: I’d not heard of jbrout before, I’ll take a look!

Olivier: I think file renaming was going to be implemented next as you are correct it is fragile currently.

Comment on Organising photographs with Python by Matěj Cepl

Matěj Cepl — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:24:22 +0000

What’s wrong with jbrout? (http://code.google.com/p/jbrout/)

Comment on Organising photographs with Python by Olivier

Olivier — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:43:48 +0000

Your naming scheme seems fragile to me: if you remove or add a new photograph, your index will be broken. And if you want to copy a selection of photographs (to create an album,…) you will constantly get name conflicts.

I use the jhead application, which has a rename option, based on the exif tag: basically
jhead -nf’%Y%m%d-%H%M%S’ *.jpg

It handles duplicated pictures (taken the same second) by appending a one-letter suffix. This way, photos are always identifiable, even if I copy them elsewhere.