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Converting a unicode string to a list of strings
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5001385/unicode-to-python-object-conversion
n = [e.encode('utf-8') for e in s.strip('[]').split(',')]
While trying to use PIL on a Arch linux box (python 2.6.7) I kept getting the dreaded "The _imaging C module is not installed" error message. I tried installing libjpeg using pacman and from source. I tried installing freetype2 using pacman and from source. After each of these attempts, I reinstalled PIL with the --update option and went through the...
I had a small piece of code I was using to parse a search string in Python for Sphinx. When you pass "verizon | mobile | at&t" to Sphinx (in boolean mode) it happily returns results. However, if you pass "verizon | mobile | at&t | " it throws an "unexpected $end near ''" error. So I needed to not add the extra pipe/or for the last element in my search string. Using split() to turn the string into a list and then using the [-1] index, you're able to determine if you're on the last element and not add the extraneous "or."
In order to get Sphinx to work in boolean mode in Python/Django, you need to pass the "mode" argument as it's plain text value to the SphinxSearch class.
UPDATE: 4/7/11 !!! IMPORTANT !!! Read the comments between Julien and I below before installing or deciding to install Zinnia. It's far easier than I lay out in this post. I'm leaving here for reference of what not to do :) --Mark