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Today I’ll show you some quick and dirty python2.5 compatibility fixes. Of course you’re developing on python2.6 or even python3.x, but your customer still lives in the dark ages. Here are two fixes that might come in handy. ImportError: No module named ssl Falling back to python2.5 socket.SSL if there is no python2.6 ssl through a small wrap_socket replacement: import socket try: from ssl import wrap_socket except ImportError: class wrap_socket: def __init__(self, socket): self.

As per the C language spec., uninitialized globals are initialized to zero (0). Nandu310 tells us why on his blog about the memory areas in the C language. Data segment: the data segment is to hold the value of those variables that need to be available throughout the life time of the program. […] There are two parts in this segment. The initialized data segment and uninitialized data segment. When variables are initialized to some value (other than 0 or which is different value), they are allocated in the initialized segment (.

The hgweb mercurial web interface on current Debian/Squeeze (mercurial-common 1.5.1-2) lists tab characters as-is in the diff view. Every line is prefixed not only by a plus or a minus (unified diff), but also by file and line numbers. This can cause a tab (0x9) character to appear as a single space. This does not look nice. The following patch can be applied to expand the tab character so the intentation looks right again.

On a clean MySQL install — on a Debian or Ubuntu system at least — the MySQL server gets the latin1_swedish_ci with latin1 character set by default. Every time you set up a new machine, you must remember to either fix the defaults in my.cnf config file or to supply character set and collation options when creating databases. Of course you’ll opt to set this by default in my.cnf first: