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Step 1: Python 2.6 proper setup

On Linux be sure to install sqlite development library; the following command will help on RedHat:

sudo apt-get install sqlite-devel

for the yum variant see here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233320/cannot-import-sqlite-with-python-2-6

Install python 2.6, this will avoid the need of additional libraries.

You will also need openssl, so if you haven’t  it issue commands like

sudo apt-get install openssl

and be sure to get also the python wrapper pyOpenSSL hosted here

We happly compiled pyOpenSSL from sources

For more tips and tricks look also at this recipe about Apache Setup, if you need it.

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Django Project, a powerful and clean Python Web Framework, is going to relase 1.2 as  the next milestone at the beginning of March.
For the meanwhile, you can grab the Beta2:

As part of the Django 1.2 release process, tonight we’ve released Django 1.2 beta 1, a preview/testing package that gives a little taste of some of the new features coming in Django 1.2. As with all alpha and beta packages, this is not for production use, but if you’d like to try out some of the new goodies coming in 1.2, or if you’d like to pitch in and help us fix bugs before the final 1.2 release (due in April), feel free to grab a copy and give it a spin.

Looking at the release notes we get

• Object-level permissions
• Permissions for anonymous users

Development sprints for Django 1.2 will also be taking place at PyCon US 2010, on the dedicated sprint days (February 22 through 25).

If you can, it will worth to look at.

Testing is important.

Testing web interfaces is difficult, and often your consultant company prefer to suggest you a manual-based testing.
But is it so difficult to do automatic web testing using open source software?

Let’s give a look to two nice web testing software

Warning: this article is still in progress: it has been published for getting comments all around.

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