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4th March 2007 - Link Blog

Five things I hate about Python. By Jacob Kaplan-Moss. I didn’t know you could force eggs to install unzipped with an option in ~/.pydistutils.cfg—that’s always been my least favourite thing about them.

Posted 4th March 2007 at 10:32 pm

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