As I’ve written earlier, I’m playing with Django these days. It’s a refreshing change, I must say, even if I admit that I prefer Ruby’s syntax to Python’s. Of course that’s just a purely subjective impression (I’m writing this while I try to avoid the rotten tomatoes thrown by angry pythonistas reading this) that does nothing to do with the power of the Python language + framework, which is by all means absolutely impressive.

In any case, I had to install a working Django environment in my machine, and while following the excellent and free Django Book instructions, this is what I did in my Leopard installation to have it up and running (Leopard already comes bundled with Subversion 1.4.4, Python 2.5.1 and SQLite 3.4.0, so you don’t need to do anything about them): Continue reading →