This faq is the most useful pygtk resource you will find. The full documentation is great for looking up which methods to use or what’s available in one class or another, but it’s the little nooks and crannies that are always left out by most pygtk resource sites that I …

Although the PyGTK Reference Manual is extremely helpful in figuring out how to use gtk objects, there’s not a whole lot of information about setting properties on gtk.Label objects readily available. Some hard-to-find yet simple tasks are setting the font size of a label and rotating the text. Pango is your friend, so don’t forget to include him.

Why can’t I find a code generator that works? Tepache is a code sketcher for python that uses pygtk and glade, but it is broken and it looks like it hasn’t been updated since July 2005 anyway. Gladex was broken out of the box. Autocode does not like my glade and the documentation is limited.

So easy, and it works with lists too. Won’t work with dictionaries but it should work with any hash-able type.

These two scripts are called when you start a qemu or kvm virtual machine. I removed the openvpn –mktun and –rmtun commands because qemu handles it for you.

The Pylons web framework is aimed at making webapps and large programmatic website development in Python easy. Pylons combines the very best ideas from the worlds of Ruby, Python and Perl, providing a structured but extremely flexible Python web framework. BlastOff is a Pylons application template providing a working site skeleton configured with SQLAlchemy, mako, repoze.who, ToscaWidgets, TurboMail, and WebFlash.

You’ve added a whole directory to get checked into subversion, and then realized you forgot to remove the binaries, or perhaps you had some hidden files, .nfs0001 or thumbs.db or something else you just don’t want to commit. There’s two ways to undo this situation.

Rpmbuild’s RPATH feature is used to search libraries outside of standard paths. They are given to the linker at buildtime. If the developers of the code you’re trying to turn into an RPM did not take any of these considerations into account when they write their programs then you may be forced to skip check-rpath.

I like os’s subprocess.Popen() to run shell commands from within my Python code. I also like to define TRUE and FALSE to use as return values. Now I know what you’re thinking: there’s no such thing as ‘C’s #define in python because there’s no compiler to swap out of all your substitutions at compile time. However, it’s just as easy to achieve the same results.

Here’s how to use svn propset with single or multiple dependencies along with the pre-revprop-change hook setup. It was a pain in the butt at first because it just didn’t make sense, but now I get it.