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matplotlib on OSX Mountain Lion with virtualenv

Posted on April 19, 2013 by ctb — Leave a comment

I have been struggling to get matplotlib working ever since upgrading to OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. It’s necessary for a number of different graphing/plotting things I want to do with NLTK and Pandas. It’s very frustrating. The solutions I’ve found…

student post feed the hard way

Posted on February 2, 2013 by ctb — 2 Comments

I decided for the Spring semester to write my course site using Flask, a python micro web framework. By saying it is a micro framework, I’m saying it doesn’t do near as much for you as Ruby on Rails and…

using pip with homebrew python

Posted on September 19, 2012 by ctb — 2 Comments

I eventually got around to updating all my Macs to 10.7 in what ended up being a few days before 10.8 was released. (I do realize the ridiculousness of the phrase “all my Macs”.) In changing over to the then-new…