>>> print “”.join(” hello world “.split()) helloworld The key to the above is that the String method split() separates the string on any amount of whitespace when no separator is specified.

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Creating a basic Django WSGI handler is pretty straightforward. The Django docs version is OK, but it relies on your application being part of the PYTHONPATH. This is what I do instead: import os import sys from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler sys.stdout = sys.stderr sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))) os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = “settings” application = WSGIHandler() This basic handler sets [...]

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Background: While cleaning up my development directory the other day, I renamed one of my Django project directories to the domain name of the site. For the sake of argument, we’ll call it django.slaptijack.com. When I descended into the directory and tried to start the development server, I received the following garbage: $ ./manage.py runserver [...]

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If you need to debug what queries your WordPress site is making, try adding the following PHP to your theme: <?php foreach ( $wpdb->queries as $query ) { echo “$query[0]<br />”; } ?> For this code to work, you need to add the following line to wp-config.php: define(‘SAVEQUERIES’, true); After that, you should see a [...]

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This is one of those annoying little things I have to do ever so often. There are two different commands to accomplish this task depending on the specific situation. If you’ve made a lot of changes to a file and need to back all of those changes out, you can use the svn revert command. [...]

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