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Python's Cheese Shop Now Open

Posted by timothy on from the don't-care-how-effing-runny-it-is dept.

Richard Jones writes "Python's software repository has finally got its own home at the Python Cheese Shop. The Cheese Shop includes the package index (PyPI) and package download repository."

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  1. This confirms everything Ive thought about pythong by bergeron76 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's just plain cheesylicious.

    Aside from all the great things I know/have learned about python, it still seems to be the only language that _always_ suffers from some kind of runtime problem when I try to use it.

    Every time I've tried to run a python script, it's bailed on me for one reason or another, and with a cryptic failure code. Which really sucks, because everyone that uses it seems to love it and I'd love to have an introduction to it that worked.

    Of course, I thought the same things about Perl too, so hopefully this brings Python some user-freudlichness.

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  2. missing something by same_old_story · · Score: 2, Interesting

    sorry for being, lazy, I didn't read the fucking repository but...
    a) why is this different from the vault of parnassus?
    b) missed the cheese joke (not a big m. python fan I guess...)

    1. Re:missing something by Ignominious+Cow+Herd · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Right, because yacc, bison, parrot, beagle, mozilla, apache, zope, gkrellm and superkaramba are all such normal names.

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  3. Re:This confirms everything Ive thought about pyth by interiot · · Score: 2, Interesting
    If they're problems that are related the she-bang (#!/usr/bin/perl), then user-friendliness problems are in teh kernel itself. The #! thing is a hack inside the kernel itself, and as such, does very minimal parsing. So, it doesn't search the path for the perl or python interpretters (unless you use /usr/bin/env, which is also not ideal for a couple reasons).

    I don't know. Maybe a better solution would be to create a variable like $SHELL, but call it $SHEBANG. When a script starts with #!$SHEBANG, the kernel wouldn't parse ANYTHING else on that line (eg. have the same behavior across Linux, Solaris, ...), and the $SHEBANG program would be some universally available program that would do the parsing of that line, and search the path, etc. I don't know.

  4. I'm a Python coder & a great Python fan, but . by dotzie · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ... but this is plain disappointing.

    Why do they included each _version_ of a package in the repository? EmPy listed and counted in the category list 4 times.

    How can I easily download a package, including all of it's dependencies? Or, how can I just download a package from CheeseShop automatically, using a command-line utility?

  5. Re:I'm a Python coder & a great Python fan, bu by rakanishu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstal l