If you’d like to turn off justification and hyphenation in the Latex produced by Sphinx, add the following code to the latex_elements map in your conf.py file.

If you’re building native extensions for python or ruby on a Mac and you get an error like:

In case anyone else is wondering why their utf-8 email is not coming out as it should when using Django…

Gentoo recently switched to make python 2.6 the default python. This means that mod_python and mod_wsgi will be re-compiled against 2.6. Which means that any python modules you’re using with Apache will also need to be re-compiled against the new version or you’ll get version mis-match errors. If you’d rather not go through all that work you can tell portage not to upgrade with the following line in /etc/portage/package.mask:

Google have released their chart API. Here’s a few alternatives for Python:

• Matplotlib
• ChartDirector
• jpgraph
• dislin

See also vtk and MayaVi

Note to self: for the following to work on a Mac with fink’s python