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If you are a python programmer and keen to use python in windows environment with the most popular Stani’s Python Editor IDE then follow the given below steps-

1. Download and install Python 2.6 from Here (http://www.python.org/download/). for your appropriate windows (32 or 64 bit)
2. Download & Install wxPython (NOT wxWidgets) from Here. (http://www.wxpython.org/download.php)
3. Download & Install SPE from Here(http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4161). Get this file: “SPE-0.8.4.c-wx2.6.1.0-no_setup.zip”.
4. Unzip it to somewhere you will remember, but don’t rename the folder anything other than “_spe”.
5. Go inside the _spe directory and double click SPE.py.
6. At this point your  new SPE Python IDE should start up. Enjoy Python….

Note: you will have to set the environmental veritable in windows for python. For Xp user,

Right click on MyComputer=>Properties=>Advanced=>Environmental Variable

and then select “Path” and click edit, add the python directory (c:\Python26)

followed by a semi colon at the end of the variable Value.(eg- xxxxxx;C:\Python26)

Python client/server programming with Apache and mod-python in Ubuntu 9.10.

1. Goto Synaptic Package Manager and install the following packages

a) apache2                                   [Apache Web Server]
b) libapache2-mod-python      [Module for running Python Programs in Apache using mod-python ]
c) mysql-server                          [Mysql Database Server]
d) mysql-client                         [Mysql Client Terminal]
e) pyhton-mysqldb                  [Pyhton and Mysql database programming fucntions ]
f)  python3,1                             [optional but i strongly suggesting you to learn python 3.x ]

2. After Installation You can start , stop, or restart the apache and mysql server using this commands

# sudo su
# /etc/init.d/apache2 start/stop/restart
# /etc/init.d/mysqld start/stop/restart

3. If You want to create mysql database , use the given command

# mysql -u root -p

[Type the password which  you had already given while installation of mysql server ]

4. Now Lets write one small web application  , Open Your favorite editor vim , gedit or Eclipse

# sudo su
# vim first.py
#!/usr/bin/python3.1
print(“Content-Type: text/html\n”)
print(“<b>My First Web Application in Python<b>”)

Save and copy the file into

# cp first.py   /usr/lib/cgi-bin
# chmod a+x /usr/bin/cgi-bin/first.py

5. Now Open your web browser and type the address like

http://localhost/cgi-bin/first.py

Thats it … Enjoy the power of Python programming …

Ubuntu 9.10 [code name : karmic koala ] has lot of bugs comparing previous releases and some of features have been removed in 9.10 version such as Login Screen GDM Manager . Hope Ubuntu community will fix everything soon in coming releases. Wireless connection is also not working in latest broadcom wifi hardware . Due to license problem Ubuntu does not include the broadcom wifi driver by default . User has to update manually using Ethernet internet connection after that they can activate driver in System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers option. But the problem of this method is internet connection . What the user supposed to do if they do not have Ethernet internet connection. The solution is installing driver from source. Broadcom company providing wifi drivers for Linux . Steps are given here for how to do enable wifi driver using this method

• Download the latest driver from Broadcom website

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

These packages contain Broadcom's IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux® device driver for use with Broadcom's BCM4311-,                      BCM4312-, BCM4321-, and BCM4322-based hardware.

# mkdir hybrid_wl

# cd hybrid_wl

# tar xzf <path>/hybrid-portsrc.tar or <path>/hybrid-portsrc-x86_64.tar.gz

# make clean   (optional)

# make

# lsmod  | grep "b43\|ssb\|wl"

# rmmod b43

# rmmod ssb

# rmmod wl

# echo "blacklist ssb" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

# echo "blacklist b43" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

# rmmod wl

# mv <path-to-prev-driver>/wl.ko <path-to-prev-driver>/wl.ko.orig

# cp wl.ko <path-to-prev-driver>/wl.ko

# depmod

# modprobe wl

# modprobe lib80211

# insmod wl.ko

#vim /etc/profile

rmmod ssb

modprobe lib80211

insmod <path-to-wl.ko-file >/wl.ko

Reference : Broadcom Website