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Mercurial module for Python 2.6/Win32

Lars Erik Jordet — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:44:43 +0000

I’ve compiled Mercurial 1.5.4 for Python 2.6, following this guide, and uploaded it here, since I guess it’ll be useful for later:

mercurial-1.5.4.win32-py2.6.exe

I use it for Trac 0.12 in a multi-repository setting, so we can keep our old SVN repo while having some of the larger projects on Hg.

lxml for Python 2.6/win32

Lars Erik Jordet — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:03:35 +0000

A quick post today: Using these instructions, I’ve built a statically linked lxml 2.2.4 for Windows.

I used the following versions of the libraries:

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STATIC_INCLUDE_DIRS = [
"..\\libxml2-2.7.6.win32\\include",
"..\\libxslt-1.1.26.win32\\include",
"..\\zlib-1.2.3.win32\\include",
"..\\iconv-1.9.2.win32\\include"
]

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STATIC_LIBRARY_DIRS = [
"..\\libxml2-2.7.6.win32\\lib",
"..\\libxslt-1.1.26.win32\\lib",
"..\\zlib-1.2.3.win32\\lib",
"..\\iconv-1.9.2.win32\\lib"
]

Download it here: lxml-2.2.4.win32-py2.6

PC-like Norwegian keyboard layout for Windows on Mac

Lars Erik Jordet — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:30:48 +0000

Here’s a quick keyboard layout for 32bit/64bit Windows in BootCamp, which puts all the keys at their “PC Keyboard” positions in Norwegian.

(The default Mac layout has horrible finger-gymnastics to get “{[]}” and other often used programming keys)

NoMac.zip

Patched libgmail for unicode handling

Lars Erik Jordet — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:28:51 +0000

libgmail 0.1.11 has a bug with unicode handling, when the sender of an email has a name with one or more non-ASCII character in it.

I’ve applied the patch I described in the link above, adding the function:

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def to_unicode(xstr):
   '''
   Forces string to unicode
   '''
   if type(xstr) == unicode:
   return xstr
   elif type(xstr) == str:
       return xstr.decode('utf-8')
   else:
       return xstr

And changed all calls to var.decode(‘utf-8′) to to_unicode(var).

libgmail-0.1.11p1.zip (source package)
libgmail-0.1.11p1.win32.exe (win32 installer)