Coding

Spring is in the air (finally) in Colorado and it doesn’t look like we’re going to get huge amounts of snow anytime soon. I was dinking around my file system to see what files I’m willing to delete thinking to myself, “can I clear up any mind clutter?” Well I was able to delete quite a bit of my old adventures from the past. However, I came across a bit of MIPS code that I wrote, I almost deleted it until I remembered somewhat recently I was able to help some poor student with his homework on one of the Ubuntu forums. ...

This wasn’t immediately obvious to me even though in hindsight it makes sense. Without putting much thought into my first attempt I numbly typed python setup.py install. My goal, to use both the twitter and the simplejson (a dependency for the twitter api) apis from my Jython scripts. I quickly discovered that to explicitly install these libraries for use in Jython you need to run their setup.py scripts explicitly from Jython. To get started download the src code of the Python libraries that you want to install. ...