Tag Archives: python

Unstructured Search for Amazon’s SimpleDB

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Amund Tveit

SimpleDB is a service primarily for storing and querying structured data (can e.g. be used for  a product catalog with descriptive features per products, or an academic event service with extracted features such as event dates, locations, organizers and topics). … Continue reading →

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How to use C++ Compiled Python for Amazon’s Elastic Mapreduce (Hadoop)

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Amund Tveit

Sometimes it can be useful to compile Python code for Amazon’s Elastic Mapreduce into C++ and then into a binary. The motivation for that could be to integrate with (existing) C or C++ code, or increase performance for CPU-intensive mapper or … Continue reading →

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How to get pip/virtualenv/Fabric working on Cygwin

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Thomas Brox Røst

If you are new to virtualenv, Fabric or pip is, Alex Clemesha’s excellent “Tools of the Modern Python Hacker” is a must-read. In short: virtualenv lets you switch seamlessly between isolated Python environments, Fabric automates remote deployment, while pip takes … Continue reading →

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