Notes and tutorials on Python

Contents:

• What is a decorator?
• What is a decorator, really?
  • Decorator expression
  • The decorator expression result
• Python and unicode
  • Python internal encoding of unicode strings
  • Python versions 2.2 through 3.2
  • Python versions from 3.3
  • Relevant python modules and commands
• Installing python scripts
  • The main problem
  • The problem by example
  • setuptools - scripts in eggs
  • Setuptools and console_script entry_points
  • Making Windows script wrappers via the distutils install-scripts phase
• Using Microsoft Visual C with Python
  • Visual studio compiler versions
  • Visual Studio versions used to compile distributed Python binaries
  • Installing free versions of Microsoft Visual C / C++
  • Other options for MSVC installation
  • Some older links on installing MSVC
• Using Pip on Debian / Ubuntu
  • Do you really want to do this?
  • Why you might want to use Pip
  • If you do want Pip installs on your Debian / Ubuntu system
  • Use Pip --user installs for your default environment
  • Install, update Pip using pip install --user
  • Install, update virtualenvwrapper
  • Set up your system to build binary Python packages
  • Build or install wheels by installing with Pip
  • Now you are in virtualenv nirvana
  • Adding new packages and wheels
  • Sometimes, it’s a package too far
  • Doesn’t work for you? Help improve this page
• Debian and Ubuntu Python package paths
• Clean out packages installed with easy_install