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9th July 2009 - Link Blog

Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip. Ashamed to say I’m not using any of these yet—for Django projects, my manage.py inserts an “ext” directory at the beginning of the Python path which contains my dependencies for that project.

Posted 9th July 2009 at 11:40 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 9th July 2009.

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