Monthly Archives: September 2012

Testing Python and PostgreSQL on Windows, Part 3

Posted on 28 September, 2012 by

As a commenter mentioned in response to Part 2, an alternative to using pip install psycopg2, which requires that you first install VC++ 2008 Express, is to download and install the Windows port, aka win-psycopg. Jason Erickson makes these builds … Continue reading →

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Testing Python and PostgreSQL on Windows, Part 2

Posted on 25 September, 2012 by

In the previous post, I covered installation of Git, PostgreSQL and Python under Windows in order to set up a Pyrseas testing and development environment. Today, we’ll explore installation of the Python dependencies. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python recommends first … Continue reading →

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Testing Python and PostgreSQL on Windows – Basics

Posted on 20 September, 2012 by

In my previous post, I wrote: Although I have not yet personally run the [Pyrseas] unit tests on Windows …, I believe the tox setup should be quite portable …, since the tests only depend on Python and psycopg2 being … Continue reading →

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Testing Python and PostgreSQL on Multiple Platforms

Posted on 6 September, 2012 by

I’m working on making the Pyrseas functional tests portable enough so that they can be submitted to the repository. Until now, these tests —which exercise dbtoyaml and yamltodb directly— existed as Linux shell scripts. Briefly, each test runs both dbtoyaml … Continue reading →

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An Apology to Roberto Alsina

Posted on 6 September, 2012 by

This post is off-topic from the main topics of the blog. It is written to defend from an accusation. Yesterday I read through Roberto Alsina’s post where he described the inequities caused by the government of the city of San … Continue reading →

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