Simon Willison’s Weblog

4th March 2007 - Link Blog

Five things I hate about Python. By Jacob Kaplan-Moss. I didn’t know you could force eggs to install unzipped with an option in ~/.pydistutils.cfg—that’s always been my least favourite thing about them.

Posted 4th March 2007 at 10:32 pm

Recent articles

Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work - 12th September 2026
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May - 12th September 2026
Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem - 8th September 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 4th March 2007.

eggs 2 jacob-kaplan-moss 54 python 1,283

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe